Word: cancerous
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Cigarette companies had special circumstances going for them that were as pretty as bright-leaf tobacco: their cigarette business is holding up despite recurring cancer scares, and they are making money on diversification projects. R. J. Reynolds reported record sales of $495 million and record earnings of $43,139,000 from Chinese foods, fruit punch, and aluminum foil as well as tobacco products. P. Lorillard's diversified operation accounted for record quarterly sales of $147 million and earnings...
Farber is a member of the Council on Cancer Research. The NIH program provides for nine councils to grant funds. Each council deals with a specific area in medical research. In addition to the councils, whose members include six laymen and six experts, there are 50 study sections. The study sections make recommendations on each application to one of the councils. The council may then accpt or reject the study section's recommendation...
...face of such evidence, in defiance of the editorial positions taken by both major Boston papers, Louise Day Hicks has consistently stuck to her guns in defending the superiority of the neighborhood school, even when that school was an insult to its own neighborhood, a scar, a cancer, detested, hated, feared. "I believe that little children should go to school in their own neighborhoods, with the children with whom they play. It is as simple as that...
Died. Gordon W. Allport, 69, giant among U.S. psychologists and longtime (1930-67) Harvard professor; of lung cancer; in Cambridge, Mass. Wary of the sweeping generalities Freud found in the human subconscious, Allport from the start insisted that each personality is an irreducibly unique cluster of character traits; that man acts not so much because of universal primordial drives but rather as a result of individual characteristics developed over a lifetime. It was once a highly controversial idea, but today more and more psychologists are coming around to this view, and his Personality: A Psychological Interpretation, written 30 years...
...have long and do still steadfastly believe that slavery is the great cause of all the chief evils of our land. It is a cancer eating at our bowels, the source of all our misery, individual, political, and economic...