Word: orality
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...study showed that L-PAM reduced the rate of recurrence among women who had already undergone surgery for breast cancer. Its effect on premenopausal women was particularly dramatic. Of 37 such women who received no drug treatment after surgery, eleven had recurrences of cancer; of 30 treated with oral doses of L-PAM, only one had a recurrence...
...Plain Speaking: An Oral Biography of Harry S. Truman, Miller...
Still, if Lamont hasn't bitten too brazenly (and it goes without saying that patrician parents demand oral gratification) Rockefeller nonetheless exceeded all previously known limits for filial sucking-up. The vice-presidential nominee delivered a maudlin soliloquy on the "Influence of My Mother." By contrast, Lamont's introductory, right-up-front candor is inviting indeed...
...City Manager, Chief Reagan and most members of the City Council are mechanical blocks of concrete. They are incapable of human responses. One gets the feeling that if you step on their toes a memo or some pre-fabricated oral rendition will issue from their mouths like a bubble gum ball from a penny candy machine...
...Plain Speaking: An Oral Biography of Harry S. Truman, Miller...