Word: tumorous
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...funds are being used for the investigation of such problems as the rate of mitosis in tumor cells, protein synthesis, hormone metabolism, and enzyme formation...
Died. Elizabeth Turrill Bentley, 55, onetime Communist whose disclosures of wartime Soviet espionage led to the conviction of more than a dozen top Reds between 1948 and 1951; following surgery for an abdominal tumor; in New Haven, Conn. A frumpy New Englander who studied socialism at Vassar ('30), Elizabeth Bentley joined :he Communist Party in 1935 when she fell in love with Soviet Spy Jacob Golos, became an underground courier Between New York and Washington; Golos died in 1943, and Bentley soon after left the party, calling Communism "a kind of missionary complex, upside down," provided the FBI with...
Stolen Hours. Brain tumors can be beautiful. On Hollywood's form sheet, a woman with a brain tumor can be practically certain that she will win the love of a handsome and successful doctor and live out her days in his tender loving care. It happened to Bette Davis in Dark Victory (1939), and now it has happened to Susan Hayward...
Susan was miserable before she got her tumor. All she had was money and the things that supply it or require it: oil wells in Texas, a stately home in England, lots of yachts and a pack of International Setters baying at her heels. She didn't have love. She didn't have a rose-covered cottage by the sea. She didn't (to judge from the hours and the company she kept) have a brain in her head. But one day out of a clear sky she was told she had a tumor...
True, there was a serpent in her paradise. She knew that in a year her tumor would return, that one day suddenly she would be blind, that a few minutes later she would be dead. But death too can be beautiful, especially in Deluxe Color. Just as Susan's sight begins to fade, her husband is called out to deliver a baby. Nobly she resolves that birth is more important than death, that his place is with the baby and not with her. She sends him off and, smiling ever so sweetly, dies alone-well, not entirely alone...