Word: fungused
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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When burns slowly developed on the men's fingers in the next few weeks, a shipyard doctor told the men they had "fungus growths." When they began to lose fingers and suffer dreadful pain, the leprosy rumor started...
...place is dank, dismal, depressing. Stacks of grey, fungus-covered piling loom like ghostly sentries, a huge, muddy filled-in ditch resembles the caved-in moat of a deserted castle. A few workmen slowly dismantle a partly built railroad; now & then a grey-clad Louisiana State patrolman plods his lonely beat...
...carried advertising, but not for revenue only. The revenue, in fact, was so much fungus. Every centime which The Stars and Stripes took in -and it took in 50 of them per copy, one dime American -vanished eventually into the unheeding maw of the United States Treasury. We carried advertising solely in order that The Stars and Stripes would look like what it was -a newspaper...
...epidemics of dysentery, one of the chief hazards of World War II. So announced Drs. Maurice Lee Moore and Charles S. Miller of Sharp & Dohme Laboratories at the Memphis meeting of the American Chemical Society last week. The drug, known as succinylsulfathiazole, is made from sulfanilamide and a fungus product. It was tried out on 40 patients at Johns Hopkins, produced no ill effects even when given in large amounts for periods as long as 16 months. Succinylsulfathiazole, said the doctors, may be important "as a protection for soldiers in the field, especially during campaigns in the tropics and where...
...than they are worth. When bright Dr. Jekyll decides to put all his evils in one basket by swallowing the laboratory brew which turns him into the dreadful Mr. Hyde, the result is not horrifying. It is laughable when he addresses his captured barmaid (Ingrid Bergman) as "my tired fungus"; revolting when he spits grape skins in her pretty face; hammy when he chuckles fiendish "Heh, heh, hehs" at his lecherous face in the mirror...