Word: contagions
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...problem that directly concerns the United States. We cannot stand by idly when it is in our power to prevent the peoples of the European democracies from suffering famine and starvation. First and foremost, because to do so would be against the humanitarian spirit of democracy. Secondly, because contagion from the diseases that accompany starvation knows no boundaries or military fronts. Thirdly, because it would seem politically unwise for a nation that believes in the spirit of democracy to run the risk of antagonizing subjugated democracies in other parts of the world. If any way can be found to send...
...Apparently the virus was brought from Hawaii, which had been hit by flu. Worried citizens feared a repetition of the great pandemic of 1918-19, but the Army's Surgeon General James Carre Magee assured them that it was not the same sort of flu. Despite the wildfire contagion, symptoms everywhere were mild. Most of the victims had only slight fever, sniffles, headache, sore limbs, backache, a tight feeling in the chest. Although Los Angeles had about 50,000 cases, only 70 deaths had been reported at week's end. mostly among people who were finished...
...radio speeches had been formal and stiff; he was at his best when he pushed aside the microphone and talked with an unforced intimacy to the living people he could see before him. Now he was not facing a group of supporters who could be moved merely with the contagion of his visual confidence. The U. S. itself was listening; he was facing the President on the ground Franklin Roosevelt liked best-before the microphone in a time of crisis...
...impossible to live on this West Coast without feeling exasperated at one's mail from New York. New Yorkers seem peculiarly subject to a contagion of panic and they forget that west of the Hudson River lies the United States, which is still an immense and magnificent country inhabited by a vigorous race of people...