Word: pinheads
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 1970-1979
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
Prompt Treatment. Humphrey's chances were vastly improved by the fact that his doctors had been on the lookout for cancer ever since they had found and removed several pinhead-size nonmalignant growths in his bladder in 1968. Five years later, they discovered some new, possibly cancerous tissue, which was promptly treated with the anticancer drug thiotepa and sessions of X-ray therapy that took five minutes a day for five weeks. ("The worst experience in my life," Humphrey recalls.) The therapy worked and the Senator was found cancer-free for three years, but a recent examination...
Senator Hubert Humphrey, 64. Pinhead tumor of the urinary bladder in 1973 was treated with X rays, and follow-up examination in 1974 showed no signs of cancer. Since then, he "has remained in excellent health with no evidence of tumor...
...been any such thing as a really good television season, and though this may be the absolute worst, that has to be a distinction so fine as to require deliberation by a board of moral philosophers. No one has yet determined how many bad ideas can dance on the pinhead of a network programming executive; the outside limit may not have been reached...
...PINHEAD AWARD (voted on by the team itself) goes to Barry Cronin, who informed Driscoll that he had a no-hitter going the inning before Bettencourt spoiled...
...louse, known as Pediculus capitis, is the size of a pinhead: it lays its eggs, or nits, on hair follicles and lives by sucking blood from the scalp. With generally improving personal hygiene, pediculosis has been waning for many years, and the fine-tooth combs (used to rake lice out of the hair) once found in most households with children have become a rarity. But outbreaks occur at unpredictable times and places. Anderson's epidemic was unusual because it was citywide, and many teachers became, literally, nitpickers...