Word: broads
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...decade of high-gear progress was proudly reported last week by the American Heart Association as it celebrated the tenth anniversary of its reorganization from a narrow-based group of medical specialists to a broad-based outfit with national public participation. In this period, said President Robert W. Wilkins of Boston at the commemorative meetings in San Francisco, surgery on the heart itself has leaped from a hesitant, tentative approach to one of great confidence: there is now nobody with acquired or congenital heart disease who cannot be considered as a prospect for surgery, and many cases can be helped...
...lacking in style. Once More, With Feeling has none of the stealthy purr-and-scratch of music-world wit; rascals are roughnecks, megalomaniacs commit mayhem, bull fiddles see red. There is not a touch of urbane caricature, it is all plebeian cartooning; and even on its own would be broad popular terms, the play has no real Broadway bounce...
...Liberal," however, is an adjective that Webster defines as "befitting a man of free birth; openhanded; broad-minded; independent in opinion." It is only to the Republicans that a liberal Democrat becomes a dangerous radical...
...million business. To operate the new industry, a flood of immigrants poured in from all over Canada and Western Europe. Population zoomed 60% in twelve years to 1,525,000; Greater Vancouver became a city of 665,000, with spreading suburbs of prosperous picture-windowed homes overlooking the broad, sun-splashed Pacific inlets...
...Antibiotics, especially the "broad-spectrum" family (best-known trade names: Achromycin, Aureomycin, Terramycin) kill so many of the harmless bacteria normally found in the digestive tract that they let the more harmful bacteria run riot. A resulting inflammation of the intestines, which may be "a deadly disease"-is usually the doctor's fault...