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Word: larynx (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1950-1959
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...efficacy of early detection and prompt treatment. Other townspeople allowed use of before-and-after pictures, some showing faces horribly deformed by cancer, then repaired by skillful surgery. One of the most eloquent volunteer exhibits was a man who had had his vocal cords removed for cancer of the larynx: Deputy Sheriff Sproul Dean, who has learned to speak through his gullet with swallowed air. Said he: "I recovered from that thing, and I want to show others that they...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Medicine: Fighting Fear | 3/31/1958 | See Source »

...title role, a Preston who had never danced or sung during 20 years of show business becomes, at a bound, a brilliant song-and-dance man. His triumph, to be sure, stems from something less than singing, and seldom exactly dancing; it grows from a leg-and-larynx zest, a mating of sales-talk incantation and engaging panhandle stride. And something of this solo zip is mass-produced in the festive small-town spin of Onna White's dances. Prettily singing the show's over-pretty romantic tunes, Barbara Cook provides a contrastingly quiet charm. The Music...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Theater: New Musical in Manhattan, Dec. 30, 1957 | 12/30/1957 | See Source »

...After the ball, Elsa, though granting she panned Maria's use of her larynx at her Met opening, heartily rasped that the "feud" was all "a joke...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: People, Jan. 21, 1957 | 1/21/1957 | See Source »

Five years after the cobalt-60 machine went into operation for cancer treatment at London, Ont., Dr. Ivan Smith evaluated its advantages: it is best in cancer of the larynx, least effective in lung cancer; it gives more relief in several other forms of cancer than ordinary X rays; though it "has not revolutionized the treatment of cancer," cobalt 60 is a boon because it does less damage to healthy skin and bone, is less likely to cause radiation sickness...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Medicine: Viruses & Cancer | 11/19/1956 | See Source »

...such as "In America, the artist is ever an outcast, a pariah" do not read like something misprinted on a card given out in a gypsy tearoom. Indeed, there are those-and Alfred Perles. is determined not to be the least-to whom such words, from Miller's larynx, "make one think of cathedral bells...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Two Pal Joeys | 6/11/1956 | See Source »

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