Word: minna
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...surrounding tissue and invade it. Vaccines cobbled together from whole cancer cells or bits and pieces of those cells have been shown to boost the body's immune system, helping it recognize and kill tumors on its own. "This was all a dream five years ago," marvels John Minna, director of the Hamon Center for Therapeutic Oncology Research at the University of Texas Southwestern Medical Center in Dallas...
...Frank Minna wasn't just any boss. He was the epitome of hustler cool, a guy who offered four teenagers, just about the only whites at a predominantly black orphanage, the distinction of becoming his errand boys. For Essrog the decision was a no-brainer. At St. Vincent's Home for Boys he was choking on a flood of words and impulses in need of release. "Language bubbled inside me now, the frozen sea melting, but it felt too dangerous to let out." Over the next 15 years Minna encouraged Essrog to speak (in shouts, non sequiturs, stupid riddles...
...when Minna turns up leaking blood, Essrog finally starts asking questions. Just what were all those errands for? And why would Minna retell a joke instead of fingering his killer in his final moments? Finding out whodunit is interesting enough, but it's more fun watching Lethem unravel the mysteries of his Tourettic creation. In this case, it takes one trenchant wordsmith to know another...
...disputes between Freud and Jung were exacerbated by a cat-and-mouse game of sexual suspicion and blackmail. Freud believed an ex-patient of Jung's named Sabina Spielrein had also been Jung's mistress; Jung in turn surmised that Freud had become involved with his sister-in-law, Minna Bernays. Both antagonists in this standoff held bombshells that could blow each other's reputation from Vienna to Zurich and back; both backed off, divided up the spoils of their joint investigations and retreated into opposing tents of theory...
...Minna Jarvenpaa '93 told The Crimson last year that it was difficult for RUS to take a controversial stand on the final club issue because such a stand would not be representative of all women on campus...