Word: chests
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...tough medical facts: the upper lobe of his left lung was cancerous and had to be removed. The cancer, which was suspected from X rays taken two weeks ago when Godfrey complained of chest pains, may have been caught in time. (The survival rate is 35% when the cancer has not spread...
...does not take "a London particular" to send cough-racked Britons to their beds -or their graves. The tight little island's air is tightly packed with pollutant particles, boosting the bronchitis and chest-disease rate to the world's highest. Last week Dr. Horace Joules (rhymes with rules), of London's Central Middlesex Hospital, painted a Dickensian picture of what a medical nightmare the past winter had been in the city which some Englishmen still call "the Smoke...
Thin strips of radiation-sensitive film, to detect over-exposure to ionizing radiation, will be worn by some University employees starting this morning. The Radiation Protection Program provides the wrist and chest film badges which are to be worn by people working in radiation-sensitive laboratories and other areas...
...Radio Performer-Impresario Arthur Godfrey, 55, signed into a Manhattan hospital, where surgeons will check up on a chest tumor. Discounting the "ivy growing in this old Irish ruin," Airman Godfrey gamely commented: "Even if the tumor is malignant, I think I've 'caught it in time-and I know people who've lived a long time with only one lung. I've flown one-engine before...
...pantomime called A Blind Woman, which Prima Ballerina Ulanova almost managed to make acceptable. But most of the evening was given over to acrobatics: spinning, headlong leaps into the arms of supporting male dancers; a vaulting lift in which Ballerina Struchkova balanced light as a gull on the arched chest of her partner; a delicate tracery of pirouettes executed at stunning speed by the Bolshoi's youngest ballerina, 19-year-old Ekaterina Maximova. Unfortunately, the dancers' technique was more impressive than their material: among the selections was a glass-beaded resurrection of Walpurgis Night, from Gounod...