Word: victim
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Last week Dr. Grubbe, 84, lay in Chicago's Swedish Covenant Hospital, apparently recovering from surgery for cancer resulting from his work with Crookes tubes. It had been his 92nd operation. The first X-ray martyr-a victim of the rays' effects before their nature was recognized-has proved to be one of the toughest...
Anti-cancer forces have scored some gains, Dr. Heller notes: one cancer victim out of three is now saved, meaning cured or enabled to survive five years or more. Until recently, it was only one in four (see chart). But this advance could be upped by 50% merely by early detection and prompt treatment. About 75,000 cancer deaths every year are needless sacrifices to ignorance, apathy and fear...
...body's rigid chemical control. Normally, hormones and enzymes work together in a delicate harmony of checks and balances to regulate cell growth. Once the cancerous process begins, it tends to snowball. The abnormal cells consume more than their share of cell foods, can flourish in a victim who is starving, or actually cause him to starve. Like juvenile delinquents, they grab what they want, and never grow up to assume the duties of normal, mature cells. They tend to reproduce early and die young...
...civil engineer by day, a jazz trumpeter in a Left Bank cave by night); its publishers claimed that it was a translation from a U.S. novel by one Vernon Sullivan. The public loved its fake sociology and integrated lust, but when police found a copy beside a murder victim and saw that the book was opened to the account of a similar crime, the Ministry of the Interior banned the book as objectionable "foreign" literature...
...movie begins with the lynching of a Negro in Memphis. Joe Grant, the victim's brother, grimly decides to get out, and travels north to New Jersey, determined to pass as a white man. The scene changes to a Trenton lush with palm trees, Negro retainers and a hand-kissing aristocracy. Enter Joe. He latches onto a local blonde and takes her swimming, an activity they both enjoy stripped to the waist. Then he switches to a sausage maker's two daughters, seduces one in the bathroom, the other in the bedroom. Soon...