Word: fives
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Recent publicity about cancer, the two doctors declare, "seems to focus on a lump in the breast." Five years ago Saltzstein and Pollack got only the more serious cases, so that they performed as many operations for cancer as for "benign" (nonmalignant) tumors. Nowadays, women with less serious ailments rush in for consultation, and the doctors are performing twice as many operations for benign tumors as for cancer. And almost half the women who rush in, the doctors find, need no surgery...
Grown best in the shade at 2,000 feet, ixbut (Euphorbia lancifolia) is a plant which exudes milky sap. It has dark green leaves marked with a white "V." The strength and dosage of ixbut are remarkably uniform: take five leaves or five sections of stem (about five grams) to brew a cup of tea; drink six cups...
...editors of the New Gould, which took five years to prepare and cost $287,000, sanction three pronunciations of gynecology: with the first syllable as "jin" (favored in Philadelphia), or as "guy" (commonest in New York), or as "jy" (scattered). The volume also recognizes the fact that a Bostonian has his bellyache in his o&-domen, while most other Americans get theirs an accent lower-in the abdomen...
...five months Britain's press had been prevented, not by squeamishness but by law, from printing all the details of "Vampire" John George Haigh's nine murders. One editor had even gone to jail for hinting too broadly at the truth. But when Haigh's counsel, in an effort to prove him insane, finally read his astonishing confession in court last week-Haigh said that he drank a glass of his victim's blood after each murder-the press was finally free to let the blood and acid...
...Five minutes later, on his way to the death cell, the killer paused to chide his pretty, 21-year-old sweetheart, Barbara Stephens. What business did she have selling a story of their friendship to the Sunday newspaper, The People? Didn't she know that he had already sold exclusive rights to his own story ("I Was a Vampire") to News of the World? Killer Haigh, who had signed the ?5,000 ($20,000) contract months ago to get the money for his defense, felt honor-bound to fulfill...