Word: tumorous
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...himself spent 50 years in public service, 33 of them in the U.S. Senate, and until the day of his retirement from politics in November 1965, he remained a gracious, gallant, increasingly isolated foe of big government and big spending. When he died last week of a malignant brain tumor, after lingering in a coma for four months, Harry Byrd, 79, had seen nearly every political theory he held dear invalidated by the clamorous demands...
Died. Harry Byrd, 79, ex-U.S. Senator from Virginia; of a brain tumor; in Berryville, Va. (see THE NATION...
This does not mean that cancer is infectious in the same way as influenza or measles-"To this day," says Dr. Rous, "I have found no case where a tumor has been transferred from one person to another." Nor does it necessarily even mean that any human cancer is caused by a virus, but the likelihood of this seems so great that around the world tens of millions of dollars are now being spent annually by scientists to see whether Rous's long-maligned discovery can lead the way to control of some cancers in man. Dr. Rous himself...
...travel a precise and predictable distance before they release their power. Careful positioning of the patient allows the beam to pierce the skin with little damage before releasing all its energy and destroying a specific target deep inside the body-such as the pituitary gland, perhaps, or a brain tumor...
...autopsy showed that Whitman had a pecan-size brain tumor, or astrocytoma, in the hypothalamus region, but Pathologist Coleman de Chenar said that it was "certainly not the cause of the headaches" and "could not have had any influence on his psychic behavior." A number of Dexedrine tablets?stimulants known as "goofballs" ?were found in Whitman's possession, but physicians were not able to detect signs that he had taken any before he died...