Word: germs
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...last week hundreds of lowly mice, rats, chickens and quail, and even a few grunting pigs, gave the lie to the great man by leading near-normal lives without a germ anywhere in them or on them. The fact that such animals can now be raised in quantity lets researchers, for the first time, study a "pure" infectious disease with only one kind of germ present. And truly germfree surgery on human patients, fulfilling a century-old dream, will soon be possible...
...publicly proclaimed that U.S. officers had ordered him to kill women and children, that President Harry S. Truman was a warmonger, and that he would gladly run a tank over the President's body. Cowart had boasted that he hated America and had accused the U.S. of germ warfare. Griggs toadied to his captors by calling them "comrades" and won prison favors through anti-American broadcasts and articles...
...champion is an aristocratic three-year-old whose bouffant hairdo is kept in place by a strategically located rubber band. At her kennel in Mahopac, N.Y., Sister is kept saturated in baby oil and hooded in Pliofilm. Her life is sunless and funless. Her diet features wheat germ and chopped beef, her home is carefully air-conditioned, and she gets ultraviolet light treatments. But sunshine? Never. Twice a day Sister exercises in an "outdoor" run -shingle-roofed, walled with Plexiglas and floored with specially selected gravel. Only when she is being prepared for show is Sister permitted the luxury...
...hospital authorities learned, to their horror, that dangerous, penicillin-resistant strains of Staphylococcus bacteria were floating merrily in supposedly sterile hospital corridors, no nook or cranny has escaped attention from sanitation experts. Faulty air-conditioning systems, surgical masks, dirty mopheads and bedside water carafes have been implicated as germ carriers. In a speech to last week's American Public Health Association conference in San Francisco, Dr. Howard E. Lind of Brookline, Mass. proposed another target for bug hunters: the pillows on patients' beds...
...nothing to do with defense, that a deadlier weapon or larger stockpile is no protection. He further deplored the policy of the present Administration, which has refused to reaffirm a resolution made by President Roosevelt in 1943 to the effect that the U.S. would not use gas or germ warfare unless it was first used by an enemy...