Word: spined
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...true that the CRIME has sired some of America's greatest men, but it is probably equally true that from 14 Plympton Street have gone forth some of the country's smallest men. So there is a certain spine-tingling element of chance in this business that should make at least all gambler types attend tonight...
...Americans to begin thinking about their income-tax reports, and soon grumbling citizens would be chewing up forms, muttering oaths and worse as they sent out their tax checks. Why not, asked an IRS man, "add a light touch to the annual tax chore" by turning out a spine-tingling, patriotic Official Tax Song-just like a cigarette commercial...
...surgeon found internal chaos. Cancer had already spread from the spine, invading the pancreas, the liver, the stomach. It was untreatable. Nothing could be done. Her parents' instinctive reaction was to hope that Gabrielle would die without regaining consciousness. But the child lived for three long, crucifying months, and her mother writes: "What I discovered later is that life, every minute of it, is beautiful and precious and exciting always, no matter what the condition of the body...
...expense of the Calgary Herald, Mike Kadar, 47, an immigrant from Hungary 28 years ago, sought to talk, brother to brother, to none other than Janos Kadar, No. 1 stooge of the Soviet puppet regime in Hungary. He had small hopes of shoring up younger brother Janos' spine, but other Hungarian-Canadians had besought Mike Kadar to try to intercede in behalf of their valiant relatives still writhing under Russian guns in Hungary (see FOREIGN NEWS). After a futile 24-hour vigil near the telephone, Mike Kadar gave up and journeyed home to write a pleading letter to Janos...
...after effect of a streptococcal infection. May occur in childhood (when it is known as Still's disease) or late in life, but is commonest in the 305, when it strikes three times as many women as men. (Possibly related is rheumatoid spondylitis, or arthritis of the spine, which singles out young men.) Usually attacks virtually all joints in the limbs. Difficult to diagnose, but in 1930 Dr. Russell L. Cecil, now medical director of the Arthritis and Rheumatism Foundation, discovered a clumping factor in the blood serum of patients that has led to a promising test...