Word: edema
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...little Pessel Fachler weighed only 27 pounds. Born in Siberia, to which her Polish parents had fled to escape the Nazis, Pessel had been harried across Europe with her mother and grandmothers, ended up at war's end in a Berlin refugee camp. Half-starved and bloated with edema, her puny body had withstood pneumonia, whooping cough, heart disease and tuberculosis...
...Taft is an amalgam of "brain power . . . sincerity . . . majestic wrongheadedness . . . Brobdingnagian bad judgments." Gunther on Bricker: "Intellectually he is like interstellar space-a vast vacuum occasionally crossed by homeless, wandering clichés." Gunther finds U.S. public life full of "poltroons, chiselers, parvenus . . . politicians bloated with intellectual edema." But after all, he says, the U.S. is the "craziest, most dangerous, least stable, most spectacular, least grownup, and most powerful and magnificent nation ever known...
While the body grows leaner and weaker, subtler, more dangerous changes occur. Vitamin deficiency causes bones to soften. Protein-deficient diet causes edema-a swelling of arms, legs and abdomen because of waterlogged tissues. Hair and teeth may fall out. Children stop growing...
...Edema, dysentery, nephritis and pulmonary ailments packed the surviving hospitals. The T.B. rate was estimated at 22% of the population. Hospital patients were required to furnish their own bedding and food. There were no cotton bandages, few disinfectants...
Died. Wassily Kandinsky, 78, mild, Russian-born pioneer of abstract painting, longtime teacher at the famed German Bauhaus school; of edema of the lung; in Paris. Once a Moscow economist and lawyer, Painter Kandinsky experimented with colorful, carefully composed abstract pictures, believed that "even a poodle dog might learn how to draw...