Word: infects
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Publicity Front. Huntington Hartford, A. & P. stores heir and art patron, took full-page ads in six Manhattan newspapers to complain that art worldlings are pulling the wool over the public's eyes. No friend to modern art, Hartford glibly lists "the diseases that infect the world of painting today" as "obscurity, confusion, immorality, violence." He concludes with a call to arms: "Ladies and gentlemen, form your own opinions concerning art . . . and when the high priests of criticism and the museum directors and the teachers of mumbo jumbo thoughout the country suddenly begin to realize that you mean business...
...true : there were actually fewer polio cases than would have been expected by chance. Ruminating on what could have gone wrong in vaccine mass production (see below), one expert said: "It seems clear that polio vaccine which, by all tests, shows no live virus is still able to infect some people...
...batch of vaccine had gone through with some live virus in it. Like all vaccines, the Salk preparation contains germs of the disease that it is meant to fight. In the Salk process, these virus particles are killed, with formaldehyde, so that they cannot keep the power to infect (but retain the power to help the system build antibodies). Although this apparently did not happen in a single case during last year's tests, it was conceivable that somewhere along the line there had been a laboratory slip-up in the job of killing the virus...
...vaccine can yet be prepared, since they perversely refuse to infect any animal but man. The P.H.S. has found many volunteer human guinea pigs in federal prisons, will soon report on its findings. The Army has some 60 investigators working on hepatitis. So far, the best protection seems to be scrupulous sanitation, and the only prophylactic, immunization with gamma globulin...
Like any grandfather, Dwight Eisenhower enjoys a romp with his grandchildren. But shortly after the three Eisenhower grandchildren arrived at the White House last week, the President was told to keep his distance: White House Physician Howard Snyder had detected a slight cold, and he warned Ike not to infect the kids. Despite the cold, the President kept steadily at his heavy schedule, and another ailment-a "slightly sprained" wrist-did not prevent him from a quick round of golf at Burning Tree Country Club...