Word: guinea
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Guinea Pig? The question, "Will my child get the real shot?" was uppermost in the minds of tens of thousands of parents who took children, aged one to six, through Houston's eight inoculation centers, which worked day after day and right through the Fourth of July holiday. Some mothers had pestered doctors, before the inoculations began, trying to arrange for their children to get gamma globulin. A few intended to go through with the experiment, and then blithely undermine it by having their family physician give their children a "sure" shot of "G.G.," as they have come...
...average attitude was well expressed at West University Place by a plump young matron holding a little girl in her lap. "My first reaction," she said, "was that I didn't want my child to be a guinea pig. But then I got to thinking." Other mothers nodded, recognizing the pattern of their own afterthoughts. "It can't hurt them," the plump one went on, "so we haven't lost a thing in coming. We've got a 50-50 chance with each child of getting gamma globulin, and if we get it we know...
...Janet Turner, 38, who likes neat, precise pictures of crumbling marble staircases and brightly speckled guinea fowl, arrived in Texas five years ago to teach at Stephen Austin College, has just won a Guggenheim to experiment in color prints...
...clever and not ineffective." Since the dropping of the atomic bombs on Japan, he wrote, "Asian opinion has been particularly sensitive to the use of unorthodox weapons of war" and susceptible to the belief that the Americans are now using other Asians-the Communists in Korea -as guinea pigs for another horrible weapon. The Peking germ-warfare exhibition fills three large halls, with exhibits of parachuted cylinders allegedly full of germ-carrying insects, and maps showing where the Americans dropped pests 804 times at 70 points. An American-made phonograph plays over & over the "confessions" of two captured U.S. airmen...
...something else." How could Thurber, or any kid, ever forget that his dad, wearing a derby hat, tried to repair the lock to the rabbit hutch, and "succeeded only after getting inside the cage, where he was imprisoned for three hours with six Belgian hares and thirteen guinea pigs"? Or take his mother, who "once distressed a couple of stately guests in her father's home by descending the front stairs in her dressing gown, her hair tumbling and her eyes staring, to announce that she had escaped from the attic, where she was kept because of her ardent...