Word: chests
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Possibly you are a bit wrong occasionally," said the President, speaking off the cuff and off his chest, "just as you think I am wrong." Grinning, he continued: "I understand that by tradition, by history, you are completely and absolutely nonpolitical. I can't tell you what a relief it is to me to address an audience where nothing political is expected of me one way or the other." The convention delegates roared with laughter...
Speaking to the mental health society in Dallas, Topeka's famed Psychiatrist William C. Menninger deplored the tendency of most Americans to lose sight of the mind in their zeal over certain bodies. "Almost every female in her late teens and 20s knows the chest and waist and hip measurements of Miss America," cried he. "In mental health, unfortunately, we do not have such a widely understood set of goals...
...medical science an answer to the increase of lung cancer? Some doctors have urged wholesale chest X rays of the population at large, and especially of men over 45. But last week the American Roentgen Ray Society heard a vigorous dissent...
...over Mexico, and the lone voice of a heartbroken whore singing in a cribhouse"), but one production after another lost money. "It's the goddam critics' fault," Jed sneered. When the theater folded. Jed went to hack in a hell called Hollywood: "His heart jumped in his chest. For the first time it occurred to him that now he was going to be rich." He got rid of his first wife ("a peasant") and married his second (who gave his life a "Brahmin note...
...Lung cancer, usually rated as hard to diagnose until it is far advanced, may be detectable in its earliest stages, suggested Radiologist Leo G. Rigler of the University of Minnesota. Rereading of chest X rays taken as long as nine years before the patients were found to have lung cancer revealed abnormal shadows and marks.Dr. Rigler believes that these were danger signals, not recognized in time...