Word: localize
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...much radiation at one body site can cause skin conditions resembling severe burns or local cancers. Widely distributed over the body so that it penetrates much of the blood-forming marrow, excessive radiation can cause leukemia. If it strikes the gonads (ovaries or testicles), excessive radiation-i.e., by best estimate, beyond 10 roentgens*-can cause mutations in the genes, which, in turn, may mean deformities in the patient's descendants. Dangers, by sites...
...breathing amorously on her neck. At her next post, Dibela, in the Belgian Congo, the resident doctor dies the night she arrives, leaving her the only white within miles. In short order she climbs the sacred Mountains of the Moon and invites a couple of thahus (curses) from the local medicine men. So there she is, alone with surly Bantus not many generations removed from cannibalism. But that is just the way Rachel likes it, for she is a born coper...
...drove his wife out of the house with a shoe, chased her into a neighbor's yard where she crawled under a car, drummed on the auto's fender with the shoe to Hush her out, recalled too late that the neighbor, who collared him for local police, was a state trooper...
...banks, while thousands of others use it for cheap transportation. One enterprising Texan has built up a booming business carrying truck trailers up and down the canal by barge, thus eliminating dockside loading and speeding up the delivery of goods to inland points. To compete with low-priced local brews, Milwaukee's Schlitz floats 8,000-case bargeloads (equal to 45 boxcars) to Houston by inland waterway from the Great Lakes, saves 40% on transportation costs. Most of the oil industry's steel drilling pipe comes in by barge...
...full membership of the A.F.L. Cooks and Pastry Cooks Association, Local 186, will meet tonight to decide whether or not to avert a threatened strike in the University's dining halls by accepting a compromise wage increase...