Word: hinting
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Last week Secretary Marshall settled the dispute. He backed the War & Navy Departments' recommendations, which were put up to Congress this week. For Spruille Braden, whose Latin American policy has been discredited and abandoned, it was a pointed hint...
...Hint from Hormones. Drs. Konrad Dobriner and Cornelius P. Rhoads of Manhattan's Memorial Hospital reported progress on Memorial's pet project-the search for the long-suspected link between hormones and cancer. After five years of extracting and peering, the doctors recently isolated a new hormonelike substance, called "Compound 18," that appears in the urine of almost all cancer patients, and almost never in normal urine. "18" may some day prove helpful in the detection of hidden internal cancer. One trouble is that 18 sometimes turns up in connection with various noncancerous conditions, such as high blood...
...Hint from Medicine Men. Meanwhile, the chemical war against cancer took a strange turn. Scientists are now experimenting with an ancient remedy well known to patent-medicine makers: the mandrake, or Mayapple root. For centuries, men have regarded the mandrake with awe. Old Testament writers mentioned it with respect as a fertility symbol (Rachel purchased some from Leah at the price of Jacob's spending the night in Leah's tent). Medieval men, certain that there was something odd about mandrake, believed that it would shriek in Gothic agony when pulled out of the ground...
...brushes, went off into the Burgundy woods. Last week he was back in Paris with the result-one of the season's best shows. There was still an element of Picasso in Marchand's painting but there was a lot of Marchand too, and also a strong hint of a new girl...
...years since V-E day the U.S. has never let its sympathy for Europe's 1,000,000 displaced persons interfere with its airtight immigration laws. At the first hint of a leak last summer, Mississippi's frog-voiced John Rankin had trumpeted the considered opinion of many another quota-conscious Congressman: "There are too many so-called refugees pouring into this country bringing with them communism, atheism, anarchy and infidelity." But last week a House Judiciary subcommittee gingerly got ready to hold hearings on a bill by Illinois' Congressman William G. Stratton, which would admit...