Word: scar
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Scar. The merger will heal a schism dating back to 1936, when John L. Lewis provoked the A.F.L.'s expulsion of his C.I.O. The A.F.L.'s old craft unions, e.g., carpenters, teamsters, plumbers, had signally failed to organize workers in mass-production industries, steel, autos, rubber, etc. As chief of the nation's largest industrial union, the United Mine Workers, John L. was confident that he could organize the mass-production industries-and he made a spectacularly successful start. The C.I.O. spread strife and union buttons across the land with sit-down strikes and picket-line battles...
...with second-degree burns covering 45% of his body surface, had undergone several unsuccessful skin grafts in 18 months, went from 130 to 90 Ibs. because of refusal to eat properly. Skin infections and contractures (contracted-burn scar tissue) made it difficult for him to move his limbs and neck. Within a few days after hypnosis began, he was taking 4,200 calories per day, became cheerful and cooperative. Thanks to improved diet, skin grafts began to "take." Twelve weeks later, B. W., healed, walked out of the hospital...
...spitted another brace of gizzards. Three hundred years later, the same Count Fosca "shot myself in the chest and then in the mouth"; 300 years after that, still going strong, he drew a razor across his throat, but "the lips of the gash [drew] together...only a long pink scar remained...
...healthy, is violently released and stimulated by the cell breakdown. It attacks the disintegrating cell, which swells and bursts, liberating still more histamine to attack neighboring cells. Over long periods of stress, the spreading destruction can lead to serious illness, e.g., if the cell destruction is near the heart, scar tissue will form, eventually causing heart disease. Moreover, the Utah scientists believe, the chain reaction may be a universal killer, present in every fatal illness, including cancer...
...photography (she develops her own negatives, sloshing around her bathroom in the dark) to word games. A favorite game is one devised by Alfred Hitchcock when he met Lizabeth Scott and got to wondering what would happen if other people dropped the first letter of their names: Rank Sinatra, Scar Hammerstein, Reer Garson. Orgie Raft, Ickey Rooney...