Word: rayed
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Republican Old Guardsmen had something besides poll figures (see Democrats) to worry them. Connecticut's Senator Raymond Baldwin was in their hair again. Husky, 54-year-old Ray Baldwin delights in needling those he labels the "stuffed shirts" of his party. As a freshman Senator, he frequently pricked the G.O.P. leadership, at times bluntly told it that its program would appeal only to voters who were already Republican...
They tied a tourniquet on a rabbit's hind leg, injected India ink or other opaque fluids into its arteries (to make the blood flow visible) and watched the results by X ray. The experiments soon solved the "crush syndrome" mystery: prolonged pressure on the leg arteries produced spasms of nearby blood vessels, which, among other things, blocked the normal circulation in the kidneys...
...telling plea for a nationwide system of cancer detection clinics. Wrote the University of Minnesota's Owen H. Wangensteen: stomach cancer is so insidious and gives so little warning that every man over 50 and every woman over 40 should report to a clinic regularly for an X-ray checkup. To point up his argument, Dr. Wangensteen examined the case histories of five world-famed authorities (including Will Mayo, co-founder of the Mayo Clinic, and R. D. Carman, who developed an improved method for X-ray diagnosis of cancer). Each of the five discovered his own unsuspected cancer...
...they knew what they were coming to see, didn't they?") The Ottawa Journal called it "the sexiest, bawdiest and most outspoken comedy-drama that ever unfolded publicly on an Ottawa stage."* Said the Ottawa Citizen more mildly: ". . . One can only remind readers that Congreve is not Uncle Ray [Citizen children's columnist...
From Paris, Painter-Photographer Man Ray, Philadelphia's gift to surrealism, looked back at Philadelphia and said: "I prefer the sadness of Paris to all the joys of the United States." Then he adjusted the leather shoestring that served him as a tie and, looking back from 57 on his "lost generation," concluded: "The greatest of life's adventures lie in normalcy and well-being...