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Word: culligan (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1990-1999
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...thousands of area residents, including the mayor's wife and infant son, contracted a flulike illness that has emptied drugstores of antidiarrhea medications and sent hundreds to hospital emergency rooms. One businessman actually brought water back from Chicago, some 90 miles away. Schools shut off drinking fountains; the Culligan man showed up outside a local TV station to distribute distilled water; and a line formed outside the old Pryor Avenue Iron well, one of the city's few sources of artesian water...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Waterworks Flu | 4/19/1993 | See Source »

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