Word: infects
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 1950-1959
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...kill bats all right, but he wants to be sure that they will not kill desirable animals or have other harmful biological effects. If no such disadvantages show up, the bat-killers of Brazil and other vampire-menaced countries will soon fan out into the jungle, catch vampire bats, infect them with the disease, and release them to return to their caves and pile them high with dead...
...kind of impassioned prattle that made Franchise Sagan a sensation at 18 and a bestselling bore at 22 continues to infect young girl writers. Two current examples of vernal volubility, each the work of a 14-year...
Peace descends only when Malachy, the Patrickstown simpleton, is vouchsafed a vision of the Virgin, and the populace turns from litigation to religion. Not, however, before the Irish, who stand "on the periphery of chaos," move into dead center and, in the book's most comic turn, infect the Sassenach with their own fey reasoning. "The bog water is rapidly rising in my brain," Butler finds, and obedient to the hypnosis that compels non-Irish reporters to write in a kind of stage Irish when describing St. Patrick's Day parades, he begins to talk in the wild...
...Salk vaccine have argued that many cases might have been prevented if the advisory committee had not blocked the injection program. But the committee is worried about the opposite possibility: that the vaccine may have contributed to the epidemic. Live virus might slip through undetected, cause no infection in the person injected, yet it could multiply in his body and infect other members of the family or playmates. However, the committee expressed hope that by mid-January improved methods will have made the vaccine really safe...
...solution with an ultracentrifuge, and the protein fraction was precipitated by chemical treatment. The nucleic acid part of the virus was isolated by a slightly different method. Now neither part contained any complete virus particles. Both parts were inert chemicals, and thus had no power to infect a tobacco plant...