Word: hookworms
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...from 1936 to 1948, a founder of the World Health Organization, and leader of the long campaign against venereal disease; of pneumonia; in Pittsburgh. Few have done more to bring modern medicine to the nation's poor than this gentlemanly physician; he fought typhoid and hookworm in South Carolina, smallpox in Colorado, tuberculosis in New York slums. In the struggle against venereal disease, he distributed educational pamphlets across the U.S., campaigned for widespread syphilis tests, and relentlessly tracked the sources of infection to such effect that the number of new syphilis cases dropped from...
Borgmann provides an amusing section on rhopalic sentences in which each word has one letter more than the last ("I do not know where family doctors acquired illegibly perplexing handwriting"), and some helpful hints for the Scrabble set (aaa is a hookworm disease of ancient Egypt, and the zzxjoanw is a musical instrument). Unfortunately, he omits acrostics, telestichs, lipogrammata, univocalic verses, Richelieu's equivoque or Swift's "Lacerated Latin" verses, in which Latin words make English statements ("Omi de armis tres,/ Imi na dis tres./ Cantu disco ver/ Meas alo ver?"). But he does include a section...
...benign monster loose in the land," Sidey said. Nothing is impossible--even a world with hookworm cured, no heart attacks, and an average income of $15,000 a year. What has been called "the improbable world of Lyndon Johnson," Sidney sees as "a simple but noble hope...
...many people in the South today worship the day that Margaret Mitchell said was gone with the wind. I say 'strangely' because few of them participated in those days. So many speak of magnolias and beautiful ladies and soft nights, and so many of them had only hookworm and poverty. We in Atlanta have been moving and getting somewhere over the years...
...that two-thirds of the annual budget goes for government salaries. Annual per capita income for the country's 20 million people is only $30 ($5 if Addis Ababa is excluded), and 98% of the population are illiterate. Some 80% of the population have parasitic diseases ranging from hookworm to elephantiasis; venereal disease infects at least half the adult population, and infant mortality is nearly 40%. Malaria kills 30,000 people annually, and 40% of the country's cattle are tubercular...