Word: recurring
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...suppress inflammation and the immune system. In severe cases, they must resort to surgery, cutting away diseased portions of bowel and then reconnecting the ends or creating a hole through the abdomen so wastes can be collected in a pouch. But even with such drastic measures, the disease may recur, necessitating more extensive operations...
...Early Days, Richardson plays Sir Richard Kitchen, a cantankerous imp bobbing and weaving his way through errant mists of memory. From moment to moment, Storey's play is both allusive and elusive - rather like hearing a few bars of music that suddenly break off and then later recur with a disconcertingly poignant resonance. Or like observing an ancient marble statue where the missing arm, leg or head must be pieced together by the viewer's imagination...
Horrobin also points to a British study of women with breast cancer, some of whom had been using Valium or other drugs for anxiety or depression. At diagnosis their cancers were more advanced, and after treatment they tended to recur more quickly than in the unmedicated women. The investigator attributed the more rapid growth to anxiety, but Horrobin believes that the tranquilizer's physical effects might be to blame. This is particularly ominous, says Horrobin, because "after a diagnosis of cancer, tranquilizer use increases two or threefold." The researcher adds: "Since nobody has bothered to look at tranquilizer...
...children who have an appalling condition called juvenile laryngeal papillomatosis. In this disease, noncancerous, wartlike growths cover the vocal cords of the victim, sometimes filling up the entire larynx so that the child can barely breathe. The only treatment has been to cut them out, but they tend to recur quickly, requiring new surgery; one of Strander's patients had had 400 operations. Here too IF worked, though it was unclear whether its antiviral or antigrowth action was responsible. It diminished the growths in four cases and completely eliminated them in three. When the injections stop, though, the growths recur...
...numbing by sheer repetition. And he squelches another glimmer of inspiration, the opening bars of "Romeo's Tune" with similar redundancy. This song, the album's current hit, features a handful of lilting syntheziser phrases evocative of young lover's passion. Forbert can't vary these phrases, however; they recur ad nauseum...