Word: extract
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Irma Marie Miller, 29, a waitress, had spent the last ten years in the shadow of the hospital. Her thyroid and parathyroids had been removed for fear of a fatal dis ease. She needed daily doses of thyroid extract. And to make up for the loss of the parathyroids, which control the body's use of calcium, she had to visit the hospital four times a day. on the average, for injections of calcium to save her from muscular spasms which might have choked her to death...
...days later, and again after four months, tests with a tiny dose of radioactive iodine and a Geiger counter showed that the oddly placed thyroid was functioning. Irma Miller has needed no more thyroid extract or calcium injections. She is going to be married, and Dr. Sterling is going to give the bride away...
...most solid dish in a meal, some form of beef should be eaten. Either with pea pods or bean sprouts, the sauted slices of beef have a rich accompanying oyster sauce made from an extract of oysters and imported from China. The contrast between crisp green vegetables and tangy cooked meat is both delighteful and surprising...
...certain small percentage of obstetricians hold themselves unalterably (and irrationally) opposed to natural childbirth, basing their objections on flimsy scientific reasoning, and insist on complete anesthesia during delivery so that they can manually extract the child. Their unconscious motivation: that they cannot bear to allow a woman to do something which they want to do themselves; in the last analysis, they insist that they must bear the baby...
Amid bombast and ill-will, all the more venomous now that Republicans have their mandate, one of the nation's finest Secretaries of State left office last week. Brilliant enough to create profound policies, efficient enough to extract the best from his department, and bold enough to trust the experience, intellect, and judgment that went into foreign affairs during his regime, Dean Acheson is now reaping the sort of chaff great statesmen usually do in insecure times. When all has blown away, we suspect that Americans will appreciate fully the services of a man so well suited...