Word: breast
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...sarcoma) in chickens is caused and can be transmitted by a virus. Over the years, viruses were found to cause other tumors in birds and lower animals. But the gap between them and man seemed unbridgeable. Then the University of Minnesota's Dr. John J. Bittner showed that breast cancer in certain mice is transmitted by a factor, now accepted as a virus, in mouse mothers' milk. This led to the establishment of mouse "dairies," and the painstaking milking of tens of thousands of rodents. In 1951, Dr. Ludwik Gross of The Bronx Veterans Administration Hospital injected something...
...essentially new development in cancer treatment is chemotherapy's advance to the point where it gives relief from pain, and usually longer life, to 60% of patients with cancer of the lung, breast, ovary or prostate, as well as leukemia and Hodgkin's disease. From this has come a surge of confidence that increasingly potent drugs can be found that eventually will effect outright cures. So great is this confidence that the Cancer Chemotherapy National Service Center now gets the biggest single bite ($23 million) of NCI's budget, with $18 million going out in grants...
...made up of the Foreign Minister and the Ministers of Law, Interior and Finance. Next in line for a thorough checking of their activities since 1947: Pakistan's politicians. Businessmen, currently operating under a promise of amnesty, have wisely poured into Pakistan tax offices to make a clean breast of their affairs and have forked up an astonishing $6,300,000 in back taxes...
...territory during Grant's advance on Vicksburg. Summoning all her Southern charm, the proud beauty invites Wayne and his officers to dinner. Making the most of her downfall neckline, she leans low over the harried foe and offers him chicken: "What was yoah preference, thuh laig or thuh breast...
...Reporters chased the Morris car 181 miles to London Airport, where Fuchs was hustled through customs and escorted by Scotland Yard men to a Convair of the Polish Airlines. Wearing a crumpled brown suit, a shirt too large at the neck, with a row of fountain pens in his breast pocket and carrying a canvas bag still stamped with his prison number, 3492, Fuchs handed the stewardess a oneway ticket to East Berlin...