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...neither supplies nor training could raise the morale of a discouraged army. "Bugout fever"-a habitual desire to break contact and head southward-was epidemic. The men, retreating over ground they had once captured, thought moodily of another Pusan perimeter...
...reason for the occurrence of many cases at about the same time, says Ingalls, is simultaneous exposure to the virus rather than the spread from person to person. Ingalls and his colleagues believe the disease may behave like measles or scarlet fever. In this case, the contamination of milk or food may account for epidemics, as it does with those diseases...
Without introduction or flourish, Little David himself suddenly appeared on the platform. Scrubbed and neat in a light gray suit, he looked more like an Eagle Scout than an evangelist. But he was up to fever heat in a few minutes and began screaming out passages from Matthew about the end of the world...
...least one student Edward J. Sack '51--was turned away with a 101 degrees fever because, "We don't have enough room." One wing of the Infirmary stayed closed last night in case of an emergency...
...observers had the same shivery feeling that accompanied the Chinese breakthrough of last November and the wholesale U.N. retreat that followed. But the situation this time was quite different. Largely as a result of General Ridgway's morale-boosting, the Eighth Army was no longer suffering from "bugout fever" (an overquick tendency to retreat in case of trouble). Instead of being strung out in vulnerable "pursuit formation," Ridgway had been advancing carefully, compactly, on constant guard against surprise attacks and flank threats. Moreover, when they struck in November, the Chinese were fresh, confident, unhurt. Now they had been weakened...