Word: treatments
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...history. [Pause.] No, it couldn't be worse than in 1929." They grin when he describes his talents: "I never was overly blessed with brains, but had a lot of energy and liked to work." They approve when he lectures parents: "I believe in the woodshed treatment ... I got plenty of it when I was a boy. I don't know whether it did any good, but I've never been in jail."Most of all in the Year IV of Dwight Eisenhower, Democrats find cause for hope in the Harry Truman who stood before them...
...Simple Solution. As a forceful and outspoken member of Kenya's legislative council, he was a constant thorn in the side of Colonial Office authority, inveighing now against the menace of the growing Indian community, now against softness in treatment of the blacks, now against the excessive pomp of the colonial governor himself. Instead of wasting money on a swank new government house, young Grogan told testy old Governor Sir Edward Grigg, he ought to be made "to live in a tent." The governor soon thereafter curtailed his original ambitious building plans...
Corn Oil & Dextrose. Dole & Co. drew careful, if not highly significant, conclusions: "Limitation of protein appears to be a useful adjunct to the treatment of obesity, but, as with any other diet, regular medical supervision is essential." Their findings appeared in the American Journal of Clinical Nutrition and caused only the faintest ripple among reducing authorities. But a free-lance writer and professional gourmet named Roy de Groot, serving as a night telephone operator at the institute, had been one of the out-clinic patients. He wrote a hopped-up account (published in Look magazine) of the diet...
...experimental diet invited the same kind of publicity. This was an unappetizing formula made of corn oil, evaporated milk and dextrose-10% protein, a whopping 48% fat and 42% carbohydrates. Vogue touted it as a "peasant diet," and last month the Ladies' Home Journal gave it the full treatment as a "fabulous formula...
...Texas, Mrs. Daniel E. Ellis took her husband for a drive while he was recuperating from a heart attack, lost control, bounced down a steep embankment, crashed into a truck and a cement mixer at the bottom, was uninjured but had to return her husband to the hospital for treatment of lacerations, explained: "I was driving to relieve him of any physical strain." Intermezzo. In Los Angeles, Mrs. Mary Feynman won a divorce after testifying that her physicist husband's Congo drums were the only things that could take his mind off mathematics, told the court: "He begins working...