Word: tumorous
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...sits in the Politburo, while his wife is chairwoman of the Central Committee of the Women's League. A host of nieces and aunts hold high posts in that organization. The only challenge to Kim may be health: there have been rumors that he suffers from a malignant tumor in his neck...
...think I have realized the come of Penny's home life. Her mother could possibly have a large tumor in her brain, causing severe pain and mood changes. She has a history of these things. This is the latest news. I hope that it will be corrected soon...
Walter Gilbert '53, American Cancer Society Professor of Molecular Biology, said yesterday that the recent national growth in cancer research involving tumor cells and viruses that could spread disease if not properly handled has sparked the debate on safety standards for such experimentation...
Died. Susan Hayward, 55, Oscar-winning cinema actress; of a brain tumor; in Beverly Hills. Born Edythe Marrener in Brooklyn, the red-haired model was fresh out of high school when she was plucked from the pages of the Saturday Evening Post by David Selznick for a screen test. Hayward scored her first break opposite Gary Cooper in Beau Geste (1939). Mistress of a sultry, come-hither look, she reached her zenith in the 1950s as one of Hollywood's most popular stars, once ecstatically declaring: "I never dreamed this could happen to a girl from Brooklyn." Her most...
...Malcolm Tweed, 59, a casketmaker from Chula Vista, Calif., visited a general practioner in 1972, complaining about a pain in his right shoulder. The doctor diagnosed his problem as arthritis, ignored a suggestion by a consulting radiologist that "a tumor must also be considered," and gave him 41 costly shots of a steroid drug over a three-month period. As the pain in his shoulder intensified, Tweed consulted an orthopedic surgeon, who X-rayed him and misdiagnosed the problem. Eight months later, an associate of the orthopedic surgeon happened to see Tweed's X rays and identified the illness...