Word: health
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Young to Die." The auto workers, like the steelworkers, were concentrating on pensions and welfare benefits. The demands on Ford would total 40? to 44? an hour, including a cost-of-living increase (about 10?), and, more important, 8% for health insurance, 24? for pensions...
...dockers, ignoring Attlee's speech and the vote, continued the strike. On Tower Hill, midday crowds gathered in the sun to hear soapbox speakers supporting labor solidarity and the strike. One of them popped out his National Health Service Acts false teeth, held them aloft triumphantly, cried gummily: "I'd never have had a tooth in me head if your fathers and my fathers hadn't stuck tergeth-er in the past for their rights. Solidarity, that's wot did it, and it'll do it again...
...National Health Service ransacked its files for possible methods of treatment, set up emergency vaccination stations. In 1933's epidemic of ordinary garrotazo, with only 15,530 cases registered, more than 3,000 died. The epidemic of 1949 had just begun...
McDavid's questions touch on everything from farms to funerals, crops to courting, health, weather and insects. He has learned that a dragonfly is a great help in filling out an isogloss. Yankees in some parts of New England call it a devil's darning needle, while some Southern Coast people go for mosquito hawk, and the Pennsylvania-Dutch merely turn the Old Country name for it into English: snake waiter...
...believe that the Maker of man has deposited in the human body drugs in abundance to cure all infirmities . . . that all the remedies necessary to health are compounded within the human body...