Word: stomachful
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Theme: stomach and intestinal cancer now kill some 80,000 Americans each year, account for 45% of cancer deaths...
...hospital. But the ambulance did not come for another hour. When emergency-ward surgeons finally discovered her trouble it was too late. She died without knowing that a .22 caliber bullet, fired by boys playing on a housetop, had gone through her back and into her stomach. ¶At four in the morning, Hector A. Orta, a small, brown-faced Puerto Rican, walked into a Times Square subway station. There were only a dozen people in the echoing cavern, but one of them-a huge, slack-faced man-was drunk. As he reeled and mumbled, the rest watched him nervously...
...policeman caught outside ran into a burst of searing machine-gun fire which hit him in the stomach. From rooftops all over the city, Stern Gangsters opened fire on troops and police...
...first U.S. fight, Cerdan proved to be what is known in the trade as a "club fighter," always boring in, fists flying. The crowd loved it, especially when one of his haymakers made Abrams' knees buckle. Cerdan's favorite target: George Abrams' stomach...
...gravely suggested that the time had come for emergency action. Though gastric cancer is the deadliest, it is getting the least study. Some points: ¶ Gastric cancer gives no early warning, is usually unsuspected until too late. ¶By the time they get to a doctor, only 8% of stomach-cancer victims can be successfully treated, 25% are beyond all help. ¶The best protection is frequent X-ray examination of every citizen to detect cancers early, but the handful of U.S. cancer clinics already have six-month examination waiting lists...