Word: stomach
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...forms of cancer are so terrifying as cancer of the stomach. It is one of the most difficult to detect in its early stages; neglected, it usually proves quickly fatal, and most cases are discovered too late. There are more than 30,000 new cases in the U.S. each year, and by present estimates, only one victim in 100 can expect to be cured...
...brought to the operating table promptly, 25 times as many could be saved. The blame for the present high death rate, Dr. Guiss believes, is threefold: 1) cancer education has focused too much on the forms that are easiest to detect, 2) people go around for months with severe stomach symptoms before they see a doctor, 3) doctors are so discouraged by the poor outlook for stomach cancer patients that they do not prod them hard enough to accept early surgery...
...right inside Johnny Beer. In addition to these, right half Larry Leonard is all taped up after injuring his ankle in the Williams game, and reserve center forward Ed Seaga has a charley horse. Both should see limited action. Florin has an infected toe, Beer the remains of a stomach disorder, and Berger a twisted knee...
...most militant wing. He introduced Franklin Roosevelt's Supreme-Court-packing plan. He once proposed that cocktail parties be abolished because "they give the timid talker too much false courage ... a large talker too big an opportunity ... an average man a cross between an earache and a stomach-ache." Last week he started off calmly: "I think the time has come in the U.S. for people to quit knocking the Government all the time...
...France, strikes threatened 1) the mind-teachers refused to grade exam papers until they got a pay raise; 2) the feet-Paris taxi drivers, mostly as old and decrepit as their vehicles, struck when threatened with physical examinations that would ground the wheeziest and most shortsighted; and 3) the stomach-butchers refused to sell meat until the government raised price ceilings. One butcher killed himself, leaving the explanation: "I cannot accustom myself to the satanic clientele in this district...