Word: demons
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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This week, though some state officials were giving only guarded, conditional permission for the trials, there was no doubt of the public's eagerness to see the vaccine tested, or of its faith in the mystical powers of white-coated medical researchers to exorcise the demon polio that has made each summertime a season of fear. In Pittsburgh schools, 80% to 95% of parents with children in the first three grades gave written consent for the vaccinations, and nearly all these youngsters showed...
...Canada and Bermuda last week, motorists who took chances with the speed limits were encountering a new operational hazard. It swooped down on them with the swiftness of a hawk and was, oftentimes, as invisible as the Thought Police in Orwell's chiller. The unwitting speed demon saw no police car in his rear-view mirror. But his speed was clocked, just the same, and soon a patrolman was waiting to arrest...
...colors are jewel-bright: a many-headed demon is emerald green; Ganesh, the God of Success, is a pink elephant dancing on a jet black mouse with ruby eyes; sphinxlike maidens are sapphire blue and brick red. When Roy wants to, he can also turn out quick line drawings that catch precisely the pinched, ascetic face of a Hindu priest or the sweeping curves of a nude girl combing her hair...
...Force is already pulling in its belt on noncombat planes. It canceled orders for 420 T36 trainers placed with Beech and Canadair, recalled 37 C-54 transports that it had leased to airlines. The Navy also canceled Temco Aircraft's "secondary source" contract for some 100 F3H-1 Demon jet fighters. McDonnell Aircraft, the primary supplier, was unaffected. Current backlog of all aircraft orders: $18 billion, enough to keep the industry busy for more than two years...
Scottish-born Dr. Mackay promptly issued a press statement warning against "a new form of idolatry" threatening the U.S. This, he said, is the "passionate, unreflective opposition to the Communist demon [which] is coming to be regarded as the one and only true expression of Americanism, and even of Christianity. It is proper to abhor Communism. Communism is an evil-let there be no mistake about that. But the spirit to which I refer, this new cult of negation, is something quite different...