Word: tumors
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...last year he came home with a pain in his chest. In an operation to remove a lung cancer, Big Bill's vocal cords were damaged, and the full, gentle voice was reduced to a whisper. Last May he went under the knife once more, for a brain tumor, and he never sang again...
...garment district, primed such innovations as shirtwaist dresses and dressmaker suits, thought U.S. women the world's best dressed, "despite the fact that once every so often I see a woman in a dress I've struggled over, carrying herself like a hod carrier"; of a brain tumor; in Manhattan...
...findings: he had a tumor on his pituitary gland; evidently it had boosted the gland's output of growth hormone to a fantastic level, while suppressing its output of three other vital master hormones which govern the adrenal glands, the thyroid and the sex glands...
...almost a year to slow his growth and help build his strength. Last March Dr. Shimizu performed a drastic operation. He opened Yoshimitsu's skull across the forehead and probed past vital brain substance to get at the deep-hidden, almost inaccessible pituitary. Then he removed the tumor...
...Stokes, 59, Pulitzer prizewinning old-school newsman (motto: "A reporter is half brain, half legs"), University of Georgia Phi Beta Kappa who got his early lessons in journalism on Southern newspapers and the U.P., in political reporting under the late Raymond Clapper in the '205; of a brain tumor; in Washington. As reporter for Scripps-Howard, astute New Dealer Tom Stokes won his 1939 Pulitzer for exposing the role of the New Deal's WPA as a lever in Kentucky Democratic politics, set up as United Features columnist in 1944, was syndicated to 105 newspapers when illness overtook...