Word: cancer
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Moreover, although Kissinger originally supported the cruise missile as a bargaining chip in arms negotiations, he now sees it as a Pentagon fixation, a nostrum advanced by the generals, in the senior official's facetious words, "as a cure for everything from cancer to the common cold...
...need the Concorde like we need skin cancer and further depletion of the world's oil reserves. Rejecting the Concorde would snub France, but so what? As for Britain, it might be the best thing we could do for it. Maybe we would force the British to face reality and pump money into more vital, potentially profit-making industries...
...have no desire to contract lung cancer because of someone else's addiction...
Senator Hubert Humphrey, 64. Pinhead tumor of the urinary bladder in 1973 was treated with X rays, and follow-up examination in 1974 showed no signs of cancer. Since then, he "has remained in excellent health with no evidence of tumor...
...frightening as the destruction of a nuclear power plant. Ruptured by the heaving of the once solid ground, it would release radioactive particles into the air. There, they could form a colorless, odorless cloud that would contaminate everything in its path, poisoning the land, killing some people, causing cancer in others...