Word: dormant
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Dormant Danger. But even moderate regular smoking went with a startling rise in the chart for atypical cells: for men who smoked less than half a pack daily, it soared to 90.6% of the slides. In the half-pack to one-pack bracket, it was 97%; for one to two packs, 99.3%; more than two packs, 99.6%; and in lung cancer victims...
...various stages of progression toward overt cancer, the graphs showed a similar increase with heavier smoking. Cancer-type cells lying dormant but presumably capable of erupting into fatal disease were not found in any nonsmokers or occasional smokers. But they occurred in .3% of slides in the group smoking less than half a pack daily; .8% in the half-pack-to-a-pack group; 4.3% in the one-to-two-packs group; and 11.4% of slides from men smoking more than two packs...
MOSCOW, Nov. 12--The Soviet Union thrust the dormant Berlin issue to the fore again today by charging that the West German government plans to build a new radio station in West Berlin for propaganda...
...Leafs' late blooming was enough to make Torontonians take a respectful second look at the power of positive thinking. Power of any kind was what the dormant, doormat Leafs conspicuously lacked when George ("Punch") Imlach, 42, took over as general manager at midseason. A former minor-league coach and player, Imlach installed himself as coach, exuded a sunshiny, nonstop optimism, never stopped insisting that the Leafs' only trouble was that everyone (including the players) thought they were...
Toward the end, Trotsky's life became a charade of frustration and fear, and Wolfe's melodramatic style is well suited to convey the unreality of it all. Trotsky liked to say that the snowy volcanoes he could see from his windows were not extinct but dormant. But could the Red Napoleon really believe that his walled house was an Elba, not a St. Helena? He had tasted power, and missed it so much that he was delighted when simple Mexicans thought of him as a prince who had fallen (hence Wolfe's title...