Word: cancerous
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...ospreys, peregrine falcons, bald eagles and brown pelicans were declining. These revelations were followed by the publication in 1962 of Rachel Carson's book, Silent Spring, which began to crystallize anti-insecticide sentiment. But the coup de gráce was administered by later studies showing that DDT could cause cancer in laboratory animals. Deciding that the compound was a hazard to humans, the Environmental Protection Agency ordered DDT sales to be restricted in 1972 and banned its use in the U.S. except in cases of sudden serious epidemic or infestation, when it still can be applied against disease-carrying insects...
Despite these complaints, some Harvard professors, including Henry Rosovsky, dean of the Faculty of Arts and Sciences, cite possible advantages of the research including expansion of the world's food supply and some leads toward the curing of cancer...
...Delaware's third delegate, Farmer Caesar Rodney, had ridden all night from Dover after an express rider informed him of his colony's stalemate. He wore a green silk handkerchief, now nearly black with road dirt, to cover the lower part of his face, which is afflicted by a cancer. "The thunder and rain delayed me," Rodney said matter-of-factly as he entered the hall...
...with some of the land fraud scandals have died over the past six years, all before they could testify. Five died in two separate plane crashes, one drove off a cliff, another succumbed to carbon monoxide poisoning in his automobile. Three suffered fatal heart attacks and another died of cancer. One was gunned down 24 hours before he was to testify in a grand jury investigation...
...five persons elected to six-year terms as Overseers are Rep. Elizabeth Holtzman '62 (D-N.Y.); Jill Ker Conway, president of Smith College; Lewis Thomas, president of Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center; Joseph Pulitzer Jr. '36, editor and publisher of the St. Louis Post-Dispatch; and Leo Goldberg '34, director of the Kitt Peak National Observatory...