Word: bone
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...radiophosphorus is good for these leukemias, in which the white cells become predominant, it is even better for polycythemia vera, in which the red cells get too numerous. This is because the radioactive atoms act on the bone marrow, where both types of blood cells are made. If either red or white cells are increasing too fast, the radioactivity cuts down their birth rate. For simple polycythemia (uncomplicated by disease of the heart or lungs), radioactive phosphorus is the best medication known today. Some patients are still getting along well 15 years after beginning this treatment, and their number...
Shining Sticks. With Don Juan in Hell, Laughton is tossing a sizable bone to the culture-starved. Don Juan, the seldom-played third act of Shaw's Man and Superman, is a dream sequence that is short on dramatic action and two hours long on Shavian talk about sex, marriage, war & peace, science, religion, literature, politics and man's fate. Before it was tried by Laughton and the other talented members of the cast (Charles Boyer, Sir Cedric Hardwicke, Agnes Moorehead), Don Juan had never had a major U.S. production. "The longest theatrical aside in the history...
...incidents down there if the Communists would only behave." At Panmunjom, Admiral Libby duly made a report on last week's riot to the Communist negotiators, who received it with bitter comments and hints that more would be heard from them later. The unfortunate outbreak was one more bone to pick over in the truce talks, which are already amply strewn with bones of contention. Peace last week seemed farther and farther away...
...than $18 million paid out in their behalf last year, the California Physicians' Service is one of the nation's largest and most successful private medical plans. As such, it is offered as a working-model argument against state medicine. Last week C.P.S. was shocked to its bone marrow: 200 or more doctors had been gypping the plan by charging it for services they had never rendered. The swag was estimated at $1,000,000 to $1,200,000 a year...
...more profitable to work for OPS than for himself: do I detect here the first faint whisperings of the Great American Economic Revolution, when all merchants will work for OPS, all farmers for PMA, all vets for VA, ad infinitum, leaving only the decontrolled rattlesnake-meat canners and dinosaur-bone collectors to shift for themselves...