Word: treating
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...situation was doubly shameful because no one could treat the food problem as a disastrous Act of God. The harvest year 1942 was the most bounteous since the Pilgrims came to Plymouth Rock. The Japs and Nazis had cut the U.S. off from only a few more or less exotic foodstuffs. (Examples: caviar, anchovies, patée de fois gras.) Thus, with reason, all over the land the U.S. housewife and her menfolk were beginning to ask: How come a bottleneck in the middle of a horn of plenty? But there was no one bottleneck. There were nine...
News from Bowmanville. To the considerable list of items which the U.S. press must treat "with discretion," OWI last week, for the first time, added the whole subject of prisoners of war. The prisoners immediately concerned in this ruling were not the American flyers in Japan, but German prisoners in Canada...
...British Foreign Office was in a tizzy. Well it knew that, whereas Germany and most of her enemies are bound by the Geneva Convention to treat their prisoners according to certain rules, Russia's nonadherence to the Convention leaves both Germany and Russia free to treat Russian and German prisoners as brutally as they please. If Britain were to execute Hess, Germany would probably denounce the Convention, would certainly kill hundreds of British prisoners in reprisal...
...Clark halfback received a head injury which demanded immediate medical attention. No doctor was present at the game; the rub-down room at Dillon was locked; and the player was carted back-and-forth until phone calls finally brought an ambulance from Stillman. Only then did a doctor treat the injury...
Baranov's disciplinary rules were rigid. There was a parade before the flag every Sunday. Gambling was sternly forbidden. Baranov forbade prostitution, encouraged his men to live with the Aleutian girls. Men with venereal disease were banished to the woods to treat themselves with "mercurials dissolved in vodka." Moonshining was also banned, but Baranov himself kept "a vat of crab apples, rye meal, and cranberries fermenting with kvass-yeast. Any man off duty was welcome to as much of the stuff as he could hold." This brew supposedly prevented scurvy, certainly helped morale. Said Washington Irving: "He is continually...