Word: scaring
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Weiss and Shipman did not intend to scare anyone with the investigation, but their work has revealed an unsuspected "biological mechanism" that acts selectively on a single radioactive isotope, raising its concentration from an undetectable amount to the vicinity, at least, of the danger level. Biologists cannot be sure that other living organisms, both animals and plants, do not concentrate other radioactive isotopes in places where they may damage...
...know tobacco best, there was plenty of evidence last week that the industry had completely recovered from the cancer scare that toppled sales in 1953-54. Philip Morris reported that first-quarter sales hit $80 million, up 11 % from the same period last year. R. J. Reynolds Tobacco Co. (Camel, Winston, Salem) said that first-quarter earnings this year will be better than the $13,565,000 made in the same period in 1956. The Department of Agriculture gaye solid support to this optimism: it estimated that Americans are smoking 9% more than a year ago, and predicted that...
When reports linking cigarette smoking to cancer first came out. at least 1,500,000 of the 38 million U.S. smokers forsook the habit, said the Agriculture Department. Since then, most of those who quit "probably have resumed, mainly using filter-tip cigarettes." Commented a tobaccoman: "The cancer scare is good for filters...
...town in a tizzy by seeming to drown in the Skunk River. Unlike Mark Twain, who allowed Tom Sawyer and Huck Finn to attend their own funeral after a similar drowning escapade, Author Kentfield arranges a highly un-Twainlike denouement. Seems that V.R. had swum the river to scare one of the town tomgirls into granting him her favors. In a third story that brakes compassion just short of tears, Ira himself leaves his mother lonely and heartbroken by bolting for the great world beyond the Skunk and the Mississippi...
Many of the week's scare headlines were made by Egyptian-Israeli power moves, but this did not detract from the seriousness of the situation. For in any such game, there is always the possibility that one of the players will mistake the other's bluff for the real thing, throw down his cards, kick over the table and start shooting...