Word: thyroidal
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...columnist almost always falls back on conversation to ensure a light tone and clarify his stereotypes. Congressmen Schmertz and Thyroid duel over whose rhetoric will cut more taxes, while Third World leader Bangambi complains to oil minister Ahmed that high petroleum prices are draining resources from the cause of the underdeveloped. "We shouldn't put a cut-rate price on our friendship," Ahmed responds. "The fact that we make everyone pay the same shows we respect you as much as we do the West German imperialist." The images are never complicated, and Buchwald doesn't hesitate to repeat his point...
...article he wrote for a pediatric dentistry journal last year, Valachovic asserted that children are more susceptible to radiation-induced carcinogens than adults because their thyroid glands are located higher in the neck. He said dentists treating younger patients should be "especially careful" when using radiology...
...deal with once the real problems are out of the way. Hence, when we are busy aiming for military superiority, busy trying to halt the spread of godless Communism through Latin America, busy worrying about four dozen stenographers in Tehran, we have no energy left over to worry about thyroid cancer and the chance of meltdown. Especially if addressing the problems of nuclear power would mean short-run worsening of "real problems" like inflation and dependence on foreign energy supplies. Especially if it would mean less electricity to run a nation of Betamaxes...
Answering Althusser's cry for help, "Normale Sup's" school physician discovered Hélène Althusser, 70, dead on their bedroom floor across the courtyard. An autopsy next day disclosed that she had indeed been murdered: her larynx was fractured and her thyroid gland damaged, common indications of strangulation. But before police could question Althusser, he was hustled off to a psychiatric hospital. During the past few years, he has suffered from increasingly serious bouts of depression, to the point that he was unable to teach this fall...
...second installment of Asimov's autobiography appears formidable. It turns out to be even more entertaining than Volume I, In Memory Yet Green. Covering the years between 1954 and 1978, In Joy is a detailed account of the writer's literary recognition, his marital failure, his thyroid cancer, his heart attack and the trauma of turning 40: "But the evil day came. On January 2, 1960, I was forty years old. To be sure, there's nothing wrong with middle age, but it comes hard to a person who is a child prodigy by profession. Of course...