Word: detect
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...name of Pablo Picasso has been officially anathema in his native Spain ever since Franco. Last week it fluttered through the conversation of Madrid's arty set as persistently as one of the master's mechanical Communist peace doves. While suspicious plainclothesmen strained to detect something subversive in the highbrow cafe controversies, the government wondered how to suppress Spain's liveliest and most political art wrangle in 15 years...
...forms of cancer are so terrifying as cancer of the stomach. It is one of the most difficult to detect in its early stages; neglected, it usually proves quickly fatal, and most cases are discovered too late. There are more than 30,000 new cases in the U.S. each year, and by present estimates, only one victim in 100 can expect to be cured...
...rhymes with mice). If all the victims could be brought to the operating table promptly, 25 times as many could be saved. The blame for the present high death rate, Dr. Guiss believes, is threefold: 1) cancer education has focused too much on the forms that are easiest to detect, 2) people go around for months with severe stomach symptoms before they see a doctor, 3) doctors are so discouraged by the poor outlook for stomach cancer patients that they do not prod them hard enough to accept early surgery...
...weeks at home, he felt progressively worse. A few days later he died. An autopsy showed he had had a skin disease and was sensitive to any small wound. Thus his widow and children received lawful benefits from the company, which did not examine the man close enough to detect the disease when he began work there...
Members of his staff are presently studying poisons. At one time it was difficult to detect poison in the system of a dead body, and once detected, to prove it did not come from the embalming fluid...