Word: treatments
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Quick Action. There was virtually no treatment for cholera 45 years ago, little public health cooperation. But last week a vast machine, reaching from Russia to the U.S., was in efficient action. Troops sealed off the infected areas; cinemas were closed; new water wells were dug. Two thousand doctors began the slow and dangerous task of mopping up the disease...
...gets the "I'm-sorry,-but-she's-out treatment any more than three times on one girl, he might as well give up," advised a Wellesley telephone operator. 'We have 'dead-beat' lists and when a man calls up, we look up his desire's name. If his is next to it, we just hand him the standard routine...
Music will also play a prominent role in the ceremonies, for one lecture will be illustrated by choral singing of Spanish ballads; while a record recital will be used to illustrate the musical treatment of themes from Cervantes...
...mimeographed balderdash had to be stamped IMMEDIATE ACTION and provided with desk space on which to gather dust. Rival service arms had to be watched for symptoms of credit-grabbing. Above all, callers with something to offer that might help win the war had to be given The Treatment: identified, badged and tirelessly "channeled" from building to building and service to service till they wound up in despair back at Union Station...
...both points and says "Zotz!" the pointee drops horribly dead. Jones naively goes to Washington to offer this handy power to the Armed Forces. The rest of the book and war he spends being shuttlecocked from plyboard office to plyboard office, receiving but failing to respond to The Treatment. This gives Author Karig (himself a captain in the Naval Reserve) a chance to set up a gallery of fine portraits in brass and then paint mustaches on them...