Word: cancerous
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...castigated Southern Governors who defied the U.S. Supreme Court's order to integrate the schools. As a result, she said, Southern whites "are losing their freedom to do right, to act as their conscience dictates; they are losing the freedom to obey the law." She warned: "Neither cancer nor segregation will go away while you close your eyes.'' Last week, at 68, Miss Lil died in Atlanta of the cancer that had ravaged her body for years...
...Cancer And Colds...
Lack of understanding about trends in crime rates may be even more harmful. I think I am right that when we seek to interpret health trends we look separately at the figures on tuberculosis, lung cancer, and measles. We do not lump these together and add ulcers, colds and athlete's foot and then seek to make a gross judgment about how we are doing...
...entire examination takes only 21 hours for men, while women over 40 require a little more time because of an additional X ray for breast cancer...
...Moscow's Institute of Reconstructive Surgery, widely regarded as one of Russia's best, he was ushered into a small operating room without proper aseptic precautions. Two "quite serious" cancer operations were under way, and Hall counted 43 persons clustered around. Some were perched on stepladders, others moved from one operation to the other, "stirring up dust and substantially increasing the dangers of infection." In a delicate nose restoration, a crude, oversized needle "fit only for abdominal surgery" was used. An effort to rebuild a face involved an old-fashioned technique that required transplanting flesh tunneled from...