Word: beams
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...hotel in a geranium-red Lincoln with 100 motorcycle cops leading the way. That night at Soldier Field, 50,000 (not a capacity crowd) cheered him to the echo when he rose-after being driven around the great bowl in the dramatic glare of a single searchlight beam-to make the second formal speech since his return...
...last five weeks, a cancer of the breast, one of the jawbone, and a case of malignant, blackish moles (melanotic sarcoma) have received the first experimental treatments with a 20-million volt electron beam. So far, the doctors will say nothing about results. But they are sufficiently encouraged to go on trying the raw electrons...
...they used it in a roundabout way-shooting a stream of electrons against a platinum target, which produced X rays, and then aiming the X rays into the patient's cancer. The new technique is to use the electrons in the raw. The advantage: whereas an X-ray beam keeps going after it has passed through cancerous tissue, and may cause "exit burns" where it leaves the body, the electron beam can be focused to hit the cancer site and then dissipate itself...
...almost voiceless with dismay at the committee's action, but after a time they announced bravely that, despite the slash, they would go ahead with Operation Vagabond, a new plan to install powerful radio stations on fast-going freighters. The ships, by being able to move about, would beam a U.S. "campaign of truth" into Communist countries despite Soviet jamming tactics...
...rolled up in storage. In 1944 it was bought by Forest Lawn, which has constructed for it a special "Hall of the Crucifixion." There, behind an Italian Gothic façade, in a 2,000-capacity auditorium complete with airconditioning, hearing aids, earthquake-proofing and an electronically synchronized light beam to identify some of the picture's 1,123 life-sized figures, a tape-recorded spiel will describe the painting six times a day, seven days a week...