Word: treatment
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Meane Treatment. To hide their ignorance (and save their skins), court doctors went to lengths that gave royalty sparse chance of survival. During the last hours of Prince Henry, eldest son of England's James I, the doctors were terrified of hurrying the process and thereby literally getting the ax. Not daring to bleed the youth as much as they wanted to, they finally decided to try treating him "as if he was some meane person." They bisected a rooster, attached the reeking halves to Henry's royal soles, which at least allowed him to keep most...
...making a concrete edifice that would appear not only airy but also monumental and imposing. Placing a building on stilts (pilotis) has been modern architectural fashion ever since France's Le Corbusier introduced it back in the 1920s. But rarely has a column in concrete had such handsome treatment as Nervi evolved for the 72 paired columns that hold the seven-story Secretariat some 16 ft. in the air. Tapered from a rectangular cross section at the top to a near oval at the base, they have all the elegance of classical porticoes...
This sprawling novel sets out to give full-dress treatment to the founding of the state of Israel. Reaching from the first Zionist stirrings in 1881 to the Arab war of 1947, Author Uris packs his pages with arresting scenes. Leaky, spavined steamers, jammed to the scuppers with Jews, make the dangerous run to the Palestine beaches; murder gangs of Jews and Arabs hunt each other out in the sun-bleached hills; intrigue and chicanery fill the halls of the United Nations and the chancelleries of Europe; the innocent and the defenseless suffer and die more often than the clashing...
Present criticism of South Africa's treatment of the Bantu and other colored peoples is based on ignorance, he charged. "World opinion which has the power to criticize does not have the responsibility to govern. We do," DuPlessis continued. The end result, he asserted, will prove the correctness of our policy...
...Zealand's engineers made a close study of the world's only other big geothermal power plant, at Larderello in central Italy. Larderello's steam has been used since 1913 to drive power plants. New Zealand's steam needs less treatment to free it of foreign matter and seems to be far more plentiful. Though authorities at first hesitated to schedule expensive powerhouses in the geothermal region for fear that the steam wells might peter out, nothing of the sort has happened; after eight years the oldest of the steam wells is screaming as loud...