Word: breast
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...becoming what Dean's Office, Council, and the undergraduate organizations themselves have been shouting for. Only a little cleaning up would remain to be done. But regrettably these exceptions are of such significance as to indicate that an excessively paternal regard for the Harvard man still lurks in the breast of officialdom. Perhaps not. Let us hope not. Certainly the rules have come a long way from the original version...
...symptoms included partial or total lack of menstruation, abdominal enlargements, breast changes (enlargement, milklike secretions, darkening around the nipples), and 22 of the 27 patients reported that they had felt the stirrings of life. Nine had been diagnosed as pregnant by 16 doctors; heart sounds had been reported with two of them while "in labor...
...products. It persuaded them to let peaches ripen on the trees before picking; to pick fresh corn before dawn and get it to A & P stores the same day; to crossbreed chickens in a way to produce more white meat (the "Chicken of Tomorrow" -a breed with a huge breast, tiny legs and wings). Many a labor union also supported A & P (many stores are unionized) because of its low prices, higher-than-union scales of pay, pensions, etc. Says Mr. John: "I'm a union man myself at heart. Whatever labor got it had to get with...
...vacation. When he appeared for his weekly news conference, he looked a little like a man who could use one. The usually natty Mr. Truman seemed almost rumpled after a day that began at 5 a.m.; by late afternoon h's shirt was mussed and his four-point breast-pocket handkerchief had lost its Esquire esprit. For the first time in months, Harry Truman seemed to have a little trouble keeping the reporters in hand...
Patient Pierce was suffering from a breast cancer, and it was so far advanced that surgery was impossible. Memorial's doctors gave her drugs to ease the pain and hormones to slow the cancer's spread, thus prolonged the life they could not save. Week after week Miss Pierce went back for treatment. Once she told a clinic social worker: "I have never met with such kindness before in my life." It was plain to Memorial officials that Margaret Pierce could pay only nominal sums for her care; most of it was free. In a year she paid...