Word: misshapen
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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John was given four operations, spread over eight months. Surgeon Frank L. Meany built a new bridge for his nose and thinned his lips. All his misshapen teeth were pulled and he got false teeth. The usual cost of all this facial improvement would have been around $3,000; John paid only $35 for dental material...
Humiliation and frustration, which followed Jeanne de Valois all her life, did not end with her death. The daughter of crafty, crusty Louis XI, King of France, Jeanne was born (1464) a sickly, misshapen creature. Her father was so displeased that he sent her away to be raised by guardians in lonely seclusion. When she was eleven, he married her off to the 14-year-old Duke of Orleans, hinting that he intended thus to end the Orleans line with his ugly, barren daughter...
...University of Wisconsin's Conrad A. Elvehjem did another series of experiments for Agene's makers, Wallace & Tiernan of Newark; on an Agenized diet, cats, rabbits, mink and dogs developed fits. Experimenters sometimes found the brain cells of Agenized dogs shrunken, misshapen or missing. A similar diet had no bad effects on 20 human guinea pigs. Nonetheless, Dr. Anton J. Carlson, dean of U.S. physiologists, announced last winter (TIME, Jan. 12) that Agene may make the eater nervous...
...misshapen ranks of the world's diseases, poliomyelitis is only an infant-sized killer compared with a giant like malaria. As a disabler, it stands well below mental illness. But polio is the disease most feared by U.S. mothers, for it strikes with cruel suddenness, and (though the proportion of older victims is increasing in many parts of the world) its victims are still mostly children...
Eyeing this never-ending struggle to make the jammed, misshapen city run, many of its critics wondered if it were an outmoded mechanism-or an incurable growth. It had burgeoned into its present, enormous, throbbing form through three great influences-its port, its position as the financial center of the nation, and the great waves of immigration from Europe. All had declined in importance. Was New York going downhill? To Bill O'Dwyer-and to millions of his fellow citizens-the mere suggestion would be blasphemy...