Word: mustard
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...found among the more virulent poisons. Reason: only the deadliest artillery (e.g., poisonous radioactive materials, X rays) can kill a cancer cell. Out last week was the news that during World War II, U.S. cancer specialists had launched an uncommonly interesting study of the cancer-killing possibilities of mustard...
...Mustard gas was a World War I terror. For World War II, chemists developed (but never used) a variation called "nitrogen mustard" (substituting nitrogen for sulphur). In studying defenses against the new product, they noticed that nitrogen mustard had a special affinity for cells that grow rapidly. Why not try it against cancer cells...
...team of cancer researchers (including groups at Manhattan's Memorial Hospital, the University of Chicago, the University of Utah) got busy on the delicate task of concocting a healing dose of mustard. They eventually settled on four intravenous injections, on successive days, of minute amounts (five to seven milligrams) of the poison...
...Honolulu, the Army put up for sale 72,000 pounds of bologna, 109 pairs of spurs, 28 saddles, 115,000 antichap lipsticks, 1,000 suits of ladies' long underwear treated to withstand mustard...
Paris' fall fashion shows opened, and Schiaparelli's outstanding contribution proved to be a bustle-a bustle on almost everything. Molyneux's favorite colors sounded like sublimations: butter yellow, burnt orange, light mustard. Favorite couturière of the boulevardiers was doubtless Mlle. Alixt: she had daytime dresses with necklines clear to the waistline...