Word: treatments
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...execution of saboteurs or the establishment of a five-year plan; it was a Cromwellian decree that girls must stop wearing miniskirts, that boys must get short haircuts and that all young people should regularly attend church. Colonel Papadopoulos compared the take-over to a surgeon's treatment of a patient. "If the patient is not strapped to the table," he said, "the surgeon cannot perform a successful operation...
Both George, imprisoned in an Athens military hospital, and Andreas, locked away in a country hotel near Marathon, seemed in good health and bore no traces of abusive treatment. The old man would probably be released soon, like most of the other politicians. Son Andreas, however, faced a more problematical future. He was accused of high treason and, though it seemed unlikely that the military would risk provoking his followers and outraging foreign opinion by executing him, he might be subjected to a long prison term or exile. As for the Communists, they were being shifted to old detention centers...
CBCC has in its eight years served as an articulate spokesman for the neighborhood, putting demands to various city agencies and often getting what it wants--a near-by community college, a new narcotics-addiction treatment center. Three years ago, a CBCC committee was designated to run the community's poverty program...
Liberal interpreters insist that autopsies can save lives by contributing to medical knowledge. In 1953 Israel's Parliament passed a law authorizing an autopsy when three doctors certify that it is necessary to determine the exact cause of death or for the treatment of another person. Orthodox extremists, who opposed the law in the first place, have been enraged, along with many other Jews, by charges that doctors are conducting widespread post-mortems for pathological research...
Once the case is diagnosed, the treatment is liable to be distressingly traditional and only mildly effective. As Dr. Harold F. Schuknecht of the Massachusetts Eye and Ear Infirmary puts it: "You hang a hearing aid on 'em, give them lip reading and special training...