Word: havoc
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Along the Corridors. Inside man himself, the path of the disease has been pretty well traced from its entrance through the nose or throat along the corridors of the central nervous system. Most researchers now believe that polio's havoc is wrought entirely through damage or destruction of the nerves alone. Despite millions spent in searching for a chemical cure, no way has yet been found to halt the disease, once it has started its march through the body. But new tricks in physiotherapy, orthopedic surgery, such rehabilitation gadgets as Barach's coughing lung, and more & more research...
...Desolate Havoc. Meanwhile, man's injustices to woman come to harvest when the women find themselves alone. They are spared the horrors of the hydrogen bomb (with which the desolate males of the U.S. and the U.S.S.R. quickly and furiously make havoc of one another's loveless cities). But for the first time, even the most intelligent women wake up to the extent of their dependence on men, not only for food, shelter and euphoria, but also for self-confidence and the ability...
While the Seventh Fleet steamed toward the Formosa Straits, Washington ordered Chiang Kai-shek to stop his air and water raids which were playing havoc with Communist shipping. Later, it brusquely turned down Chiang's offer to send 33,000 troops to Korea, where they might have come in handy last week. Washington's policy was directed by the fear that any action strengthening Chiang would bring the Chinese Communists into the Korean war and by the belief that appeasing Mao would keep them...
Strong south winds played havoc with both teams yesterday as the freshman soccer squad battled Medford High School to a 0 to 0 deadlock on the Business School Field...
...sudden and somewhat unexplainable drop in the number of 'Cliffedwellers getting married will probably play havoc with the statistics inevitably issued each year to the effect that Harvard men marry a greater percentage of Radcliffe women than any other species, collegiate or otherwise...