Word: treatment
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...record of Mormons and Mormonism in regard to their treatment of the Negro reads very differently from what you would have the public believe. It is interesting to note that the immediate cause of the Mormons' being driven from Missouri, with great loss of property and life, was an editorial in the church-owned paper there, entitled "Free People of Color." At the same time, Joseph Smith said, "Go into . . . any city and find an educated Negro . . . and you will find a man who has risen by the powers of his own mind to a state of exalted respectability...
...days later, the other half of Greentree Stable had some sharp words about the treatment of four-footed athletes by two-footed businessmen. Speaking at the Thoroughbred Club of America, Mrs. Payson's brother, John Hay ("Jock") Whitney, 59, told horsemen that with the "monumental exception" of Kelso (see SPORT), thoroughbred "mediocrity has been so spectacular that it can no longer be ignored." Why so? Simply because commercialism is taking over the sport, said Jock. "The rewards, whether for winning or for losing, offer almost irresistible temptations to race a two-year-old more than is good...
...thus transplanted at the University of Mississippi Medical Center so that they might continue working although the tube that connected them to the bladder had been damaged by disease or injury. Parts of the adrenal glands that bestride the kidneys have been moved to the thigh to facilitate continued treatment without repeated major operations...
Keats's tragedy was neither unrequited love nor bad treatment by the world. It was tuberculosis, which he caught while nursing his brother Tom. Given the medical practice of the day, it killed him. Nothing could be more harrowing than descriptions of Keats's final weeks in Rome. When he coughed up two cupfuls of blood one morning, the doctor felt obliged to bleed him two cups more "to relieve inflammation." Then he was put on a starvation diet of "one anchovy and a morsel of bread a day." As a medical student, Keats knew long before this...
...United Nations charter giving the U.N. the power to intervene and find out what communities want to be free." He said that although such an ammendment "would violate the sovereignty" of the colonial power, it represented the only arrangement under which a territory could be assured just treatment...