Word: hookwormed
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...unsatisfactory sequel to Little Women. It exhibits her as a West Virginia cabin waif named Trigger, part tomboy and part prophetess. She has a pack of Sunday School cards. Her implicit faith in their texts not only enables her, amid blubbering prayers, to heal her neighbors with hookworm, but also causes her beneficiaries to regard her as a witch. When not engaged in faith-healing, little Trigger throws stones at her acquaintances, abuses an idiot girl friend, steals a sick baby, falls in love successively with two construction engineers...
...appearance of militarism he wore civilian clothes. Through tall, thin, cafe-au-lait Louis Borno, John Henry kept tight rein on all Haitian legislation. Under him Haiti's internal and external debt was reduced to $14,000,000. He established eleven hospitals, 139 rural clinics to treat malaria, hookworm and yaws, built 1,000 miles of new roads, a half dozen new bridges of concrete and steel...
...brutality. Compressing in time rather than exaggerating in degree the sordid materialism of lazy back-countrymen, it moved Manhattan reviewers to call its characters "livestock," "pigs," "guinea pigs," "weird savages," "the primitive human animal writhing in the throes of gender," "foul and degenerate parcel of folks," "the hangdog and hookworm...
...population has increased 18%,. The result is that Porto Rico's resources, natural and economic, are exhausted. Birth Control, seriously agitated in the insular government, is blocked by the dominant Roman Catholic Church. Poverty and hunger are on all sides. A laborer is lucky to make $150 per year. Hookworm and tubercu- losis take a heavy toll. The hurricane of 1928 (called "San Filipe" by the natives) struck the island a $100,000,000 blow from which it is still staggering. The 1929 sugar price slump hit the island's chief source of income. Tourist trade, despite the fine...
...association could survey its concrete accomplishments: $300,000 collected and spent yearly on publications and health teachers; active coöperation of every state health department; year-round health instruction in all schools; summer courses in health education in three dozen universities; $100,000 just sent to overcome starvation, hookworm and tuberculosis among Porto Rican children; pre-natal maternal education; a definitely lowered child sickness and mortality rate...