Word: whitish
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Never Before. The spinal cord is a cylinder of whitish-grey mush surrounded by a tough casing, running through the hollow centers of the vertebrae and intervertebral discs. Inside the cord are nerve cells and main nerve tracts like a telephone installer's spaghetti wire. Although smaller nerves in the extremities may regenerate after injury and partial restoration of function is possible if the cord is not completely severed, there is virtually no precedent of rejoining and restoring function to a completely severed spinal cord in man. Dr. Murray offered a simple explanation of previous failure and his apparent...
...Last week Donna Rachele told how those last remains were returned. A messenger from the U.S. State Department turned up one day recently with what he said was "something very important." Then he gave her five tiny vials, each containing a bit of tissue, plus a bigger piece of whitish brain in a transparent envelope. The name on the envelope was misspelled MUSSOLINNI...
...Gerard Kuiper, head of the scientific team analyzing the evidence, was that the moon is coated with a frothy substance that "may hide many treacherous things." The University of California's Dr. Harold Urey argued on the other hand that photographs of several craters showed "a whitish button on the bot tom," suggesting that there is "very hard material underneath...
...letting more than a trickle of smoke and fumes escape into the air. These measures did some good. For one thing, they changed the color and character of the smog. Los Angeles smog is still maddeningly irritating to the eyes, but now, at least it is "clean," a glaring whitish color with practically no soot or smoke particles...
Orthodox medicine poured a flood of doubts and questions at Drs. Ivy and Durovic. What was Krebiozen (pronounced kre-by-o-zen)? Nobody knew, except that it was a whitish crystalline powder. How was it made? For years, Dr. Durovic has kept parts of the process secret. Did it really help cancer patients? On this question there was violent disagreement, intensified by wild charges (from both sides) of misleading or distorted evidence...