Word: flowers
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...soon developed that Japanese B is transmitted to humans by the bite of a mosquito, Culex tritaeniorhynchus. Only the females are venomous bloodsuckers; the gentle males stick to flower nectar. All well and good, but mosquitoes disappear in winter. Where did they fill up with encephalitis virus in the early summer to pump it into humans? The answer was an animal, no doubt, with seasonal habits-one easily infected with the virus but not made seriously ill or killed by it. That pointed to young animals, which would promptly develop antibodies. The only creatures that fitted these specifications were birds...
...were an instant hit. People on both sides of the Iron Curtain thumbed them to tatters. In Belgrade, Yugoslavs used them to learn English; in Athens, a shoemaker designed new shoes from the illustrations; in Djakarta, Indonesia, a Chinese tailor copied an entire Sears wedding ensemble, down to the flower girls' dresses. The impact even reached Moscow, where Russian diplomats consulted the catalogues on what to wear in the U.S. They are now so highly valued that old copies are patched up and rebound in new covers and any tattered copy brings a good price. At the Djakarta Airport...
...strains of Star Dust, played by the Melachrino Strings, wafted from the eighth-floor tower room at Denver's Fitzsimons Army Hospital. An idle glassene oxygen tent was placed outside the door m the flower-banked corridor. Inside the room, the world's most important hospital patient rested comfortably and listened to the music. A week after his heart attack President Eisenhower was making steady progress toward recovery...
...Pennsy. If possible, the Braves under Stengel (1938-43) were even worse than the Dodgers. But Casey's managerial genius began to flower. When a long game dragged on into darkness and the umpires refused to end it, Casey suddenly found it necessary to bring in a relief pitcher. He signaled to the bullpen by flashlight. Minutes later the umpires called the game...
...boys were the young flower of the nation, but what went on after lights-out left a trail of rotten petals from attic to parade ground...