Word: cancered
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...main objective was a quick victory followed by a quick return to normalcy. It was the normalcy of selfishness, nationalism and power politics." He blamed U.S. Ambassador Laurence Steinhardt and U.S. policy for the Communist coup in Czechoslovakia. He said of Jan Masaryk's suicide: "Maybe he had cancer." In all of his speeches, the U.S. is always wrong. He never attacks Russia; Russia, by implication, is always right. His way of solving the Berlin crisis is to give Berlin to the Russians...
...every eight Americans dies of cancer . . . one out of every three Americans dies of diseases of the heart and blood vessels...
...Other things came out too. This was not the first time that Brown had claimed a wonder-working discovery. Born in Portugal of a U.S. seaman father, he had owned a drugstore in New Bedford, Mass., but had also run a "clinic" where patients were treated for everything from cancer to polio. On Nov. 13, 1939, he had been fined $1,000 for illegal practice of medicine, later had the sentence nullified. John Brown says he was framed...
...years ago 64-year-old James Forbes Whiteford, a U.S. consulting engineer, got the bad news after an operation in London: he was dying of cancer. Whiteford began to live from day to day. He refused a job with the Ministry of Supply, sold his property in Britain, returned to the U.S. to die. Later the same year, Whiteford underwent another operation at Manhattan's Memorial Hospital, was told there was no sign of cancer. He gained weight, felt fine, began writing a book about his postponed date with death...
Died. Maud Alice ("Emerald"), Lady Cunard, seventyish, famed Chicago-born hostess of Edwardian England's literary & artistic set, and later a boon companion of Edward VIII and Wally Simpson; of pleurisy and cancer; in London. A sometime intimate friend of Novelist George Moore and Symphony Conductor Sir Thomas Beecham, Emerald married Steamship Heir Sir Bache Edward Cunard in 1895, came to view with imperturbability the diatribes of her ultra-radical daughter Nancy...