Word: publicizer
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...work of artists of the 2,500 years between, the public could find cats of its choice in all sizes, complexions and dispositions. Among those present: a centuries-old trowel-eared Cat Head in bronze (7th-4th Century B.C.) which stared out of its case with the composed dignity that its important place in Egyptian society had justified; a mummy of the same breed (one of thousands of such embalmed animals found in the Nile Valley), bound into a thin, dusty cylinder with only the ears and sunken face visible; a 15th Century specimen crouched and grinning above a terse...
...Spanish Protestant, he said, "cannot hold official position in the government, nor can he rise to officer's rank in the army unless he conceals his religious beliefs. He is not allowed to practice his faith in public. The chapel he attends must not display any exterior evidence that it is a place of worship. It cannot advertise its existence-not even with a bulletin board. It cannot be listed in the public directories." According to Bigart, a Protestant clergyman "suffers much the same type of persecution as the Roman Catholic clergy endure in Communist Hungary," although he noted...
Doctors are still far from being able to say what causes cancer, but they suspect many things. Last week, for the first time, the American Cancer Society and the U.S. Public Health Service's National Cancer Institute got together for a national cancer conference. For three days some 400 experts talked things over in Memphis' Hotel Peabody, where, between sessions, they chatted, smoked, and watched the tamed wild ducks swimming in the lobby fountain...
...Washington, U.S. Public Health Service officials had no plans for abandoning the only leprosarium on the continental U.S., at Carville, La. (390 patients). All states, except New York and Massachusetts, require isolation of leprosy victims. Patients are discharged when twelve monthly tests show no evidence of the leprosy bacillus. There is still no specific cure, but sulfone drugs like promin and diasone (close chemical relatives of the sulfas) speed up the time when patients can be released as noninfectious...
...Casey didn't get a chance to tell him. Next time down, the French sled careened high up the wall and was jerked down too suddenly: it crashed against the inside wall, and the public-address system blurted, "81, Shady . . . 81, Shady" (Lake Placid code for "send the ambulance"). The Frenchmen were rushed to the hospital for treatment of their injuries...