Word: coughings
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There is no real shortage of food, but much of it goes to feed the roundworms, whipworms and hookworms that live in the bodies of nine out of ten villagers. A newborn baby has only a fifty-fifty chance of surviving its first year. Tuberculosis, polio, whooping cough and measles are all commonplace. So is the sight of children carrying tiny coffins to a graveyard...
...soon discovered that preventive medicine was the "only realistic" approach. One of his early cases profoundly angered him: a mother with five children lost three of them to whooping cough-"three deaths that could have been prevented by three shots costing 10? apiece...
...encouraged to visit their father's place of business. There they interrupt proceedings with a ritual cry: "Only one cavity!" Children may also be seen in the early morning, when they ingest the seven essential vitamins every child needs for perfect health. Toward evening they grow pale and cough until a powerful potion brings speedy relief...
They called themselves the "Fourth Combined P.O.W. Wing." Each camp had its own American commandant, as it were. The prisoners adopted Air Force organizational tables-wings, squadrons, operations. A tap code and a hand code were the most effective methods of communicating, but everything helped-the modulations of a cough, the syncopated swipe of a broom...
...unlikely that anybody in Washington would make either faux pas these days, for Gough (rhymes with cough) Whitlam is stirring things up more than any Australian leader in years. Until recently, Australia resembled a sort of waltzing Matilda, content to glide through life on the strong arm of a big, steady date. To her escort-first Britain, then the U.S.-she was complaisant, undemanding and faithful. In short, Australia could be taken for granted, and often was. No more. The waltz is ended. Australia has started to rock, and to a beat that is her own. To the dismay...