Word: acorn
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Grigori Roskin of Moscow University casually picked up an article on South America's fatal Chagas' disease, a protozoan infection spread chiefly by an acorn-sized insect, the triatoma. In female Chagas victims there is a wasting away of breast tissues, which are composed of large, spongy cells. Could it be, Dr. Roskin wondered, that the devouring parasitic trypanosomes are especially attracted to large cells? And that cancerous tissues, which are also made up of oversized cells, might also succumb to the same parasite...
...Game. In Grand Junction, Colo., deer hunters Philip Massey and John Gobbo saw a four-point buck, took aim; frightened, the buck choked on a large acorn, fell dead...
...Under Secretary of State Edward R. Stettinius Jr. was seeing everybody. To Prime Minister Winston Churchill he took a fine acorn-fed Virginia ham with the fat all on it, sat and talked late in the P.M.'s bedroom. Next day he settled to long, earnest talks with Foreign Secretary Anthony Eden. He lunched with the Bank of England's new Governor, Lord Catto (TIME, April 17), Chancellor of the Exchequer Sir John Anderson, saw Imperial Chemical's Lord McGowan, Production Minister Oliver Lyttelton. He also had an audience with King George...
Last week, from a stanch old Republican oak with roots deep in the soil of the Midwest, dropped the first rebellious acorn. In his Emporia Gazette, Editor William Allen White attacked Ohio's Governor John W. Bricker resoundingly...
...Monday. He examined 6,000 witnesses, heard 20,000,000 words of testimony, indicted 500 men & women. Of those brought to trial, 94% have been convicted. Says modest Judge Ferguson: "My old Dad used to say, 'Even a blind hog will find an occasional acorn if he just keeps his nose down...