Word: generalized
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Dates: during 1950-1950
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...playing and her vivacious and nostalgic songs came such blushing lines as "I know I'm not pretty, but I got pep." She kept getting her audiences into the act by handing out roses and kisses to bashful customers (one man decorated with a rose in Olney, Md.: General Omar Bradley...
...power fanatic's assault against Forrestal's program for a balanced defense force, now lauded Forrestal as the only Administration leader who had fully realized the threat of Russia and knew how to fight the Reds. Wrote Huie: "In December, 1947, when France was paralyzed by a general transportation strike, Forrestal summoned his most trusted friends to Washington. His friends produced $50,000 immediately; the money was carried that night to Paris by an American intelligence officer and paid next day to a prominent Communist leader. The strike ended within twelve hours...
...merit of painting," he once wrote, "is its address to the mind." Because he continually asserted his conviction that most other British painters were mindless, they expelled him from the Royal Academy. They also took great satisfaction in sneering at his half-mystical allegories and his absurd Death of General Wolfe (in which all the figures were shown classically nude...
False pregnancy has sometimes been a subject for jest, but to doctors, who call it pseudocyesis, it is no laughing matter. Many general practitioners and some specialists have been fooled by women who seemed to be in labor but proved to be not even a little bit pregnant...
...that women get relief from rheumatoid arthritis during pregnancy, then relapse within a couple months. Why does pregnancy have this effect? Some arthritis researchers have tried to find a drug or chemical which would get the same results (hence, ACTH and cortisone treatments). Dr. Louis W. Granirer of Queens General Hospital in New York City reasoned that the healing substance was probably in the blood of pregnant women, and probably stayed there for a while after childbirth...