Word: breast
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...People who have not seen the dangers in meeting craft and patience with breast-beating and haste, have attacked the Secretary because he forebore a Damn-the-Torpedoes search for quick results. . . . The Republicans may make fewer mistakes and they may even have more dramatically final victories to display four years from now. But regardless of their fortunes, they begin with an advantage over their predecessors: a solid foundation to build on. For this, the Republicans can thank the man they have attacked so wildly during the last four years, Dean Acheson...
...holy oil (containing perfumes of orange blossom, roses, cinnamon and jasmine, mixed with musk and ambergris) from an eagle-shaped vessel called the Ampulla. The Archbishop moistened his finger in the oil and made the sign of the cross on both the Queen's hands, on her breast and on the crown of her head. He spoke the ancient words: "As kings, priests and prophets were anointed, and as Solomon was anointed king by Zadok the priest . . . so be thou anointed, blessed and consecrated Queen over the peoples whom the Lord thy God hath given thee to rule...
...years as a desert surgeon, Dr. Clarence G. Salsbury saw only 66 cases of cancer among Arizona's Navajos, with not a single breast cancer among the women. To pin down the difference between cancer rates among Navajos and the surrounding whites, Arizona and the U.S. Public Health Service are launching an intensive survey. Then they will try to find out what causes the difference...
...Breast cancer (which occurs in men as well as women) is often of a type which shows the converse: it is dependent on female hormones, and can be controlled when they are eliminated. This may be done for women by removing the ovaries or giving male hormones, in men by hormones alone...
Huggins is still unashamedly upset over the high percentage of prostate cases which relapse and the large proportion of breast cancers which do not yield...