Word: cancerous
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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RIVERS OF BLOOD, YEARS OF DARKNESS, by Robert Conot. The 1965 Watts riot, model for the urban violence of today, is painfully and poignantly dissected to uncover the cancer of Negro despair...
...subcommittee's hearings, the U.S. Public Health Service published a 200-page follow-up to the 1964 Surgeon General's report. Based on a review of more than 2,000 research studies made in the past three years, the report repeats that cigarette tars can cause lung cancer; it depressingly documents further evidence that the weed can bring on peptic ulcers, aortic aneurysm, cancer of the larynx, mouth, pharynx, esophagus and bladder. A two-pack-a-day smoker aged 55 to 64, says the report, has 34 times more chance of dying of lung cancer than a nonsmoker...
Nicotine demonstrably places dangerous strain upon the heart muscles. E. Cuyler Hammond, vice president of the American Cancer Society, told the subcommittee: "Milligram for milligram, nicotine is one of the most powerful and fastest acting of all known poisons." He added unhappily: "I doubt that habitual heavy smokers would be satisfied with cigarettes which contain little or no nicotine...
...that in 1966 Strick man had taken his filter to Louisville's Brown & Williamson Tobacco Corp., which tested the device and rejected it because it was too tightly compacted, as any effective filter might be. Indeed, observed Dr. Ernest Wynder of Manhattan's Sloan-Kettering Institute for Cancer Research, filters that significantly cut tars and nicotine "are so tight that when you smoke these cigarettes you develop a hernia...
...both"). But in June 1965, after three weeks' courtship, she married one of the pathfinding composers of modern jazz, Baritone Saxophonist Gerry Mulligan, now 40. Curiously, Mulligan had been the last love of the tragicomedienne most often likened to Sandy, Judy Holliday, who had just died of cancer. One dissonant note: Sandy is tone-deaf, ignorant of jazz, and the only records she owned were in a different groove-Andy Williams. Says Mulligan: "She's a kid who had a fear of music laid on her as a child. She's just now learning to relax...