Word: tensed
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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The Hottest Thing. "Right now," says National Cancer Institute's Heller, "the hottest thing in cancer is research on viruses as possible causes." The Rockefeller Institute's Dr. Peyton Rous showed as long ago as 1911 (his findings were unpopular at the time) that one cancer (sarcoma) in...
For all the grim statistics, the scientists and the subcommittee concluded that the nation could and would survive-and the extent of survival would depend directly on the number of preparations made in advance. Inexpensive but effective civil defense-of which the U.S. now has practically none-"would save tens...
Even today, Romans prefer to dwell on the grandeur of classic Rome rather than recall the Etruscan kings, who, as Livy reminded them, could once make the Roman Senate tremble. But tucked away in a corner of Rome's Villa Borghese park is one of the world's...
Cut off by the Soviets from their traditional northwestern Pacific fishing waters, Japanese boats are ranging far into the mid-Pacific to intercept the salmon as they head for Alaska spawning grounds, trap tens of millions before they can reproduce. Up to 20% of Bristol Bay red salmon runs in...
Then reports of the outside world's shock over the treatment Harold Macmillan had received began to reach Moscow. At that the barometer began to rise a little. At week's end when Macmillan flew into Leningrad, a crowd tens of thousands strong lined the roads to greet...