Word: stingingly
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...trick of attacking some cells more than others. So virulent that one milligram could kill a large chicken, actinomycin seemed far too dangerous ever to try on humans. Last week in Rome, pleasantly surprised, Dr. Waksman told the International Congress of Microbiology that German scientists have finally taken the sting from his dangerous drug and turned it into a potential weapon against cancer...
...mind and memory until he recognizes independently that he has resources to finish the journey alone. The psychiatrist shares the most intimate aspects of the patient's life, thus affording both the relief of catharsis and the support of an understanding relationship. Painful memories lose their sting. The patient's confidence is gradually restored through his faith in the doctor...
21st Precinct (Tues. 9:30 p.m., CBS Radio) makes an effective half-hour of police drama (from Manhattan files), but loses a lot of sting from its resemblance to NBC's Dragnet (from Los Angeles iles). In its favor, the new show has Actors Everett Sloane and Joan Lorring and Director-Writer Stanley (Gangbusters) Niss, an expert at creating minor personalities. 21st Precinct captures the sounds and scenes of everyday police work; the characters are all underplayed, just like Dragnet (which pretty much originated that school of radio acting, and has lately begun underplaying its own underplaying). Unsponsored...
Citation: "Skilled novelist of manners, an ironist who inspires laughter with a sting, he has made an imaginary character a byword on countless lips...
...Cardinal Lercaro, 61, archbishop of Bologna. A jovial and unpretentious man who six years ago was still a parish priest, Lercaro is now the most popular bishop in Italy. A wartime antiFascist, he made a postwar reputation in such Communist strongholds as Ravenna and Bologna, where he took the sting out of the Reds' propaganda by putting his weight behind social reforms. Hard-working as any Communist, he put on a spectacular Catholic youth festival in Bologna's Margherita Gardens (called the "Red Gardens") last month, outfacing Bologna's Red mayor (TIME, March 30). Lercaro feels that...