Word: hypo
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...Clue. In Buenos Aires, Radical Deputy Raúl Uranga thought he knew who had given Paraguay's dictator the hypo. He and his fellow opposition deputies had proof, said Uranga, that Perón had helped Morinigo. He wondered out loud if there was a connection between the arms for Morinigo and a new appropriation earmarked for "other expenses." Uranga set off an uproar in the Chamber of Deputies, but no Peronista answered...
...these same kids would, a few years later). Three Men under Williamsburg Bridge, by ten-year-old Walter Kmeta, looked like a Mondrian abstraction-and had more life in it. Yvonne Grogan's black & white Landscape had a sense of balance that a trapeze artist might envy. Hypo and Little Hypo, by Brooklyn's John Pietrowski, 8, for all its blots and blotches, was a study of mother love. Almost all the pictures, selected from 42 New York City settlement-house art classes, had obviously been painted for fun. The best of them will be sent to Paris...
...exhibits ranged from a sketch of a row of ash cans to voluptuous nudes, from academic watercolors to trick photographs like that of a G.I. being menaced by a ten-foot hypo needle. One above-average recording of Army life "off limits" was T-4 George R. Imhof's Leaving Fast-a harassed G.I. taking hasty leave of two dingy girls in a dingy back room (see cut). At the opposite pole of graphic imagery: Corporal Neil D. Schworm Jr.'s Corpse in the Moonlight, a gouache fantasy featuring a robed skeleton floating high over a toylike country...
...Ohio. The itch, typhoid, dysentery-all avoidable by cleanliness and sanitation-were common. So were smallpox, scarlet fever, measles, colds, pneumonia, tuberculosis. Asiatic cholera decimated many towns in the 1830s and '40s. Other popular ailments included insanity, alcoholism, "scolding," and a mysterious disease known as "ennui" or "hypo," marked by "feelings of dullness, fear, indefinite pains and lack of desire to attend to any business...
...Hypo sometimes affected the judgment. In one recorded case an old gentleman got up in the morning and tried to put on a small boy's pantaloons. He wakened the house with a roar: "What's the matter? Why, can't you see what's the matter? I'm swelled as big as an ox. I cannot get my big toe into my pantaloons...