Word: benignity
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...much higher percentages of lung-cancer cases than those he cited. By improving their techniques, some doctors hope to do an even better job of detection. Washington's Dr. Edgar W. Davis suggested one improvement-X-ray specialists should realize that half of the tumorlike masses which appear benign on the plate are actually malignant, so that the rule should be: when in doubt, operate as early as possible...
...strangely benign twist to the current uncompromising Soviet line, Russia's top World War II military hero, Marshal Georgy K. Zhukov, in a Pravda article, indulged himself in praise for two former comrades in arms. Wrote Zhukov, in marking the ninth anniversary of V-E day: "The Soviet people will never forget the selfless struggle waged against the German armed forces by our Allies. We pay our due also to their leaders. General of the Army Eisenhower and Field Marshal Montgomery, under whose leadership American and British armed forces repeatedly defeated German fascist troops." Later in his piece, however...
Killian paid tribute to Cambridge for "its benign influence on three such great institutions as Harvard, M.I.T. and Radcliffe, permitted to flourish here...
...performers could scarcely match the line-up of the 1951 Senate crime hearings, which starred such unforgettable characters as Bible-quoting Senator Charles Tobey, Underworld Moll Virginia Hill and Frank ("The Hands") Costello, but the cast was fascinating in its own way. There were McCarthy, alternately menacing and benign, doodling or rolling his eyes at the ceiling; slick-haired Roy Cohn, licking his lips and buzzing in the boss's ear; Secretary Stevens, eager but harassed, his horn-rimmed glasses forever sliding down his nose; Arkansas' Senator McClellan. rough and ready, if sometimes confused, the committee...
...people of the valley are suffering from one form or another of African sickness. Etienne Cavecon, a young schoolmaster, has the disease in its most benign form, "indolence." For Etienne, every day passes like every other, leaving him untouched, unchanged, unmoved, like a man asleep. His foster father Jacob, with whom Etienne lives, has spent his time observing life with such quiet detachment that he has "reached his sixtieth year without ever having had a serious illness or an enduring sorrow." Vigorous pioneers built the home of Jacob and Etienne, but in four generations the family has "shrunk...