Word: easiest
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Warner Guiss (rhymes with mice). If all the victims could be brought to the operating table promptly, 25 times as many could be saved. The blame for the present high death rate, Dr. Guiss believes, is threefold: 1) cancer education has focused too much on the forms that are easiest to detect, 2) people go around for months with severe stomach symptoms before they see a doctor, 3) doctors are so discouraged by the poor outlook for stomach cancer patients that they do not prod them hard enough to accept early surgery...
...quiz shows. Eventually N.T.N.C. will own a 22-station network, but one immediate problem will be tough to solve: TV sets are too expensive for the average Japanese; N.T.N.C. will not make money until mass production of sets gets under way. Meanwhile, N.T.N.C., feeling that public demonstration is the easiest way to sell its idea, will donate 1,000 U.S.-made sets to educational and cultural groups...
...years studying music in the cosmopolitan Paris of the early '20's gave him a catholicity of musical interests which was later to be tempered by the jazz and folk melodies of America. Copland therefore likes to think of himself as belonging in several categories. "I can be the easiest or the hardest to understand," he says; "it depends on who I'm writing for." He has written for many people, having composed music for the radio, schools, the theatre, and motion pictures, as well as for the more restricted audience of the concert hall. The Pulitzer Prize winning "Appalachian...
Since the ultimatum to the Veterans' Administration did not specify what expenditures to curb, the V.A. heedlessly took the quickest and easiest action. This has led to no economy but to plenty of headaches. The V.A. functions to benefit veterans with an inexpensive education. Its staff is supposedly competent to handle all veterans' problems and it certainly could avoid such a costly internal blunder...
...never forgotten the pistol-whipping that Villa had once given him in a quarrel over a woman: "I would -for 50,000 pesos." Chavez did not have that much cash, but he mused that "collecting money from Villa's enemies to have him killed would be the easiest thing in the world." Within a month a fund of 100,000 pesos was subscribed...