Word: suffering
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Pauling's argument: molecular disease arises when defective genes cause the body to manufacture abnormal molecules. Up to i% of the 2,000,000 mental defectives in the U.S. suffer from phenylketo-nuria-a mental disease accompanied by the body's failure to oxidize an amino acid, phenylalanine, to tyrosine. Probable cause of the failure is a defective enzyme. The Pauling project: to find out the connection between the molecular and men tal defects, and also whether the other 99% or more of mental defectives owe their handicap to a similar molecular abnormality caused by a combination...
...clear. Her brief, softspoken, painful tale is absolutely bare of dramatic flourishes, boasts only a few forlorn buds of poetic feeling. Author Daniels is not sufficiently sensuous a writer to breathe physical presence into her characters; yet they think their narrow-bound thoughts, talk their touching dreams and suffer their private agonies most convincingly. As a result, the novel reads rather like a play -it is all there except the actors and the lights...
...their biggest studio. To make things easier, they superimposed arrows and circles on the screen to single out key figures. NBC commentators loomed into view in the shape of triangles, sometimes peeped through keyholes. But as ABC's debearded (for TV) John Vandercook mused: "Sometimes I think we suffer from embarrassment of riches...
Last week three doctors on the staff of Manhattan's Memorial Center for Cancer and Allied Diseases reported the first substantial breakthrough on the radiation-damage front. Noting that patients with overactive thyroids seemed to suffer less radiation injury, they tried a synthetic thyroid hormone product, triiodothyronine. Of 26 patients who got the "T3" in an ointment within two to four weeks after damaging radiation, 22 showed a good to excellent response; in two it was only fair, and two had to give up because of allergic reactions. All 26 reported immediate relief of pain...
...word 'enjoyment.' We rob the children of the initial enjoyment of wrestling with reading by making all the words too simple and making the sentences too short and saying too little and feeling nothing at all. Children want all the emotions. If they do not suffer, they want to know what suffering is. Why else do they ask you, 'Have you got a book that will make me cry?' or 'Have you got a book that will scare me to death...