Word: delphian
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Delphian oracle could not have been more clairvoyant. In a recent issue of the Journal of the American Medical Association, doctors at the Minnesota Department of Health and the University of Virginia reported a total of ten cases of suspected Thucydides syndrome -- flu complicated by TSS. Nine of the cases occurred during a major influenza outbreak in Minnesota in the winter of 1985-86. One occurred in Roanoke, Va., and an eleventh case, in Oregon, has since been reported to the CDC. Like the Athenian scourge, the two-part illness was lethal: six of the patients died. Langmuir says...
...always difficult, and Western diplomats hope to learn more about Deng's status during a visit to Peking this week by Secretary of State George Shultz. The signs of Deng's declining influence have been proliferating in recent weeks. The Chinese leader's public statements have become few and Delphian, and though he is frequently quoted in the press, most of the citations are from speeches he made at least four years...