Word: victimes
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...University of Pennsylvania's Dr. Gilson Colby Engel protested that many stomach cancer deaths are unnecessary. X rays and the gastroscope can detect all but 8% of early cancers, said he, but neither patients nor doctors understand the need for such examinations. The average stomach cancer victim does not consult a doctor until 15 to 16 months after his symptoms begin. Anyone who begins to feel weak and tired, to lose his appetite for meat and to have indigestion before or after eating would do well to be examined at once for stomach cancer...
Dudley Gate likewise is to be a victim of the new library, and is now in the process of demolition to make way for re-routing the network of paths between the Yard and the Union. The entire process of demolition and building will take an estimated 16 months, with the fall of 1948 called for as completion time...
...demands in the press for his resignation. Habaneros tell the story of the Camaguey man who had been badly beaten up for talking about Grau. "Did you say very bad things about him?" asked a sympathetic cop. "No, I praised him, and then a mob attacked me," said the victim. Currently the most popular Cuban is Senator Eddy Chibas, ardent duelist and once Grau's close friend, who fills the air every Sunday night with rasping radio attacks on "the Government of dishonesty and indignity...
...East Orange, N.J., Dr. Myerson's soothing drug treatment got partial support last week. An amnesia victim, a wandering farm hand who had been taken to a hospital, was treated with a dose of sodium pen to thai (a barbiturate similar to sodium amytal) and promptly recovered his memory...
...favorite parlor puzzle a decade or two ago. The late Alexander Woollcott published a breathless version in which the missing person is an elderly woman; in Mrs. Belloc Lowndes' The End of Her Honeymoon (1914) it is a young husband. All are variations on the same theme: a victim vanishes, leaving no sign of his existence; in feverish haste his hotel room is refurnished, repapered or walled off. The hotelkeeper (sometimes it is the police) has reason to dispose of the victim without alarming the city...