Word: risked
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 1960-1969
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...sharpest risk is lung cancer, from which cigarette smokers have a death rate almost eleven times as high as that for nonsmokers. Smokers' death rates from other diseases are: bronchitis and emphysema, 6.1 times the rate for nonsmokers; cancer of the larynx, 5.4 times as high; ulcers of the stomach and duodenum, 2.8; cancer of the bladder, 1.9; coronary artery disease, 1.7; hypertensive heart disease, 1.5. (Heart and artery diseases combined cause many more premature deaths than does lung cancer...
...women smokers the death rate from lung cancer appears to be increasing along the same lines as that for men. > There is not yet enough evidence to show whether filter cigarettes are really safer than "straights." > Quitting smoking definitely helps. >Pipe smoking is almost harmless. One risk: a slight increase in the incidence of cancer of the lip. > Cigar smoking, up to five cigars a day, is apparently safe; for men who smoke more than five cigars a day, the death rate is only slightly higher than for nonsmokers. > "Possible benefits" from the use of tobacco took only...
...Like most first-class surfers, Cabell has only scorn for the "hot doggers" who risk their necks by crisscrossing waves haphazardly. It takes art to stand, knees slightly bent, arms spread, guiding the board along the tube with almost imperceptible foot movements. And only a few ever experience the ultimate thrill. "Once in a while," says Joey, "you get locked so deep in the tube that nobody on the beach can see you, and if a guy were just behind you, he'd get totally wiped out. You are so far back inside the wave that it breaks right...
...John Falstaffs mouth the famous speech slighting honor ("Who hath it? He that died of a Wednesday. Doth he feel it? No . . . I'll have none of it then!"), Rowse writes: "I think we may conclude that Shakespeare, sensible man, would not have been eager to risk his life for honor...
Something Better. If the surgeons' arguments are not ended, neither are their ingenious efforts to find better ulcer treatments. Dr. Weinberg is still improving his own technique; he now uses only a single row of stitches to close the slit in the pylorus, reducing the risk of a later shutdown. Other surgeons are combining the Weinberg method with the tying-off of blood vessels, especially for bleeding ulcers. Minnesota's Surgeon Owen H. Wangensteen is trying to make fellow surgeons abandon the knife for nearly all ulcer patients and freeze the stomach instead, a procedure that is hotly...