Word: testes
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...First Hurdle. Predominant U.S. military imagination tends to stop at the point of reciprocal nuclear holocaust. Why does the Soviet imagination leap this hurdle? Through continued ignorance of the effects of thermonuclear weapons? This can hardly be the explanation, now that the Russians have had years in which to test and ponder their own weapons. Garthoff suggests two other explanations...
...been driven almost crazy every night for eight weeks by unbearable itching. She could identify the places where the itching started by small black spots. A host of specialists in internal medicine and skin diseases had subjected her to examinations, plus blood-sugar, blood-count, urine and liver tests-not to mention a syphilis test. Unable to find any cause, they dismissed the patient as a neurotic, gave her tranquilizers, which did no good...
...working toward an explanation of how the first life appeared on earth. It is offering knowledge that may lead to the cure of cancer. And it came along just in time to warn against misuse of another young science: nuclear physics. The comparative "cleanness" (low fallout) of the test bombs that the U.S. was exploding in the Pacific last week was in large part a response to the warnings of the geneticists...
...quite a collection of defective molds, each needing some extra nutrient or having some other gene-controlled chemical ailment. In a few years their imitators filled their own laboratories with molds as unnatural as the most monstrous fruit flies. The coral fluffs of normal Neurospora are rare in the test tubes and Petri dishes. In their place are blackish warts, lichenlike incrustations, or sick-looking globules. One horrible kind of mold grown in a moving liquid floats in bunches with limp limbs like soft, dead crabs...
What the bishops have to say on these and other matters will be attentively followed, even in near-empty-church England. Wrote Britain's Reynolds News: "This coming month will provide an opportunity to test what has almost become a new Christian dogma of our time: that though very few go to church, everyone is interested in what the churches are doing . . . This is the church's chance...