Word: bulb
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...electronic microscope. Unlike most other disease-causing microbes, this virus does its damage only by attacking the central nervous system,* paralyzing nerve centers and pathways that control distant muscles. Nerves governing the legs, arms and breathing are particularly susceptible. In the severest and commonly fatal bulbar cases (involving the bulb at the base of the brain), speech and swallowing are affected as well as central breathing control...
...animal wallowing around in dirt and filth," the Chinese subjected him to endlessly repeated accusations and endless hints that it would be easy to kill him. Bit by bit he wrote what the Chinese wanted (as one reward they allowed him to warm his hands on a light bulb). "The hardest thing I have to explain," he said, "is how a man can sit down and write something he knows is false and yet to sense it, to feel it, to make it seem real...
...Missouri Baptist preacher, sturdy, bulb-nosed Ernest Wilkins became a brilliant mathematician and a Phi Beta Kappa at the University of Illinois, wrote a thesis on algebraic numbers theory before he graduated in 1918. After serving overseas in World War I, he worked his way through the University of Chicago's law school, became a prosperous lawyer, was president of the Cook County Bar Association in 1941-42. One of the leading U.S. laymen in the Methodist Church, Republican Wilkins has been serving as vice chairman of the presidential committee seeking to eliminate racial discrimination in plants with Government...
...interrogated him daily for six weeks. Before each session, the jailers softened him up by making him spend two or three hours in a tiny concrete cell in which he could not sit down, stand upright or lie down. "The box," said Ludig, "was illuminated by a very powerful bulb. [It gave] you a headache, and you were kind of blind after...
...bacause she only "half hears" him, a good thing considering the rot he talks about. doggedly he bears with her through exchanges like: "Molly, we can't stay here playing cards in the Lobster Bowl cocktail lounge until we're old." Molly (ingenuously): "If we got a biger light-bulb, we could play in the bed-room." That Elizabeth Ross and Logan Ramsey manage to give a hint of life to theses impossible roles in remarkable...