Word: germ
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...will rise. People living near the plants will get more gamma rays through their gonads. So will people farther away, affected by radioactive by-products from the plants' exhausts. Possible result: more redheaded children will be born in black-haired families, and more mutations will lurk in the germ plasm to scandalize future neighbors...
...White House physician," Admiral Mclntire explains, "may not wait until the President picks up a germ, runs a temperature. . . . The job is to keep him well . . . and that entails daily observation. . . . [The] medicine man of the Great White Father must have the run of the place . . . in parlor, bedroom, and bath...
...fever treatment, vaccines, heat applications. But treatments are still hit or miss; too little is known of the disease and its cause. Most doctors believe that worry, infection or poor diet may make a person susceptible. But they are betting that the actual culprit will prove to be a germ...
...that seven years ago was dedicated to the "World of Tomorrow." Here through all the skepticism, the haggling and the hot tempers, is another dedication to the future. Here, in once-swampy Flushing meadow is the machinery that may be the only effective antidote to the atom bomb, to germ warfare, to rocket missiles. Here, for all the uncertainly, intolerance, and misunderstanding, lies the last hope...
...nature-loving scientists at New York's American Museum of Natural History decided to find out how DDT could be used against harmful insects without hurting innocent wildlife. As a test area they chose five square miles of Bear Mountain Park, a popular resort infested with pestiferous, germ-spreading flies...