Word: untowardly
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...with the rosary" because he daily prays for peace, once more called for a halt to the "evil cult" of gun rule. In Rangoon, jeeps and Studebakers owned by Thakin Nu's partisans hustled voters through the driving rain to polling booths. Voting proceeded smoothly. The only untoward incident: in four of Rangoon's 106 polling places, poll watchers threw out all ballots because of a technical oversight-election officials had failed to stamp them with the required rhinoceros seal...
...public interest has been aroused by the recent announcement of the "sandpaper treatment" for facial defects such as acne scars [TIME, March 13]. Although this technique would appear on the surface to be a harmless procedure, it is our opinion that the public should be warned against some very untoward effects which can result if this treatment is not done by the most highly qualified surgeons aware of the hazards...
...would appreciate it, however, if you would correct the figures concerning untoward incidents in Okinawa during the six-month period ending Sept. 30, 1949. The correct official combined Army-Air Force figures for this period disclose that there were six murders, eight rapes, seven robberies and 23 assaults. TIME'S figures, which we could not confirm or deny during the few hours they were available to us before publication, were [considerably higher...
...Massachusetts "mocked." The report claimed that discharged inmates who had formed: emotional attachments" at Framingham were allowed to return for weeks at a time. In his charges against Dr. Van Waters, the Commissioner included such a case. The evidence showed, however, that the former inmate returned not because of untoward "attachment," but to encourage a life prisoner at a time of emotional crisis. This was psychiatric treatment of which the ex-inmate was highly praised by Reformatory officials...
...wonder drugs." Even some doctors have become a little overenthusiastic. Dr. John H. Talbott, of the University of Buffalo School of Medicine and the Buffalo General Hospital, sounded this warning in the current issue of the New York State Journal of Medicine: "It is only human to minimize the untoward reactions of a new therapeutic substance in the enthusiasm of discovering and subjecting it to clinical trial." Dr. Talbott listed, in detail, the wonder drugs' dangers...