Word: influenza
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...step to the "polite lies and flattery," still well-intentioned, which Italians use to make life more agreeable. "Tailors praise your build. Dentists exclaim: 'You have the teeth of an ancient Roman!' The doctor cannot help remarking that he has rarely encountered an influenza as baffling as yours." Even speedometers "are made to lie in Italy for your happiness, " set to read 10% ahead of the actual speed "to make you feel proud of your automobile and driving skill...
...identity of the nation's No. 1 killer: heart, kidney and circulatory diseases, including strokes, which accounted for 55% of the nearly 2,000,000 deaths in 1962. The second-place killer is cancer (16%). The other major causes of death: accidents (6%), diseases in the newborn (4%), influenza and pneumonia (3%), diabetes (2%), congenital malformations (1%), cirrhosis of the liver (1%) and suicide...
...least partially, to drug treatment. University of Michigan researchers told the Federation of American Societies for Experimental Biology that amantadine, a drug synthesized by Du Pont chemists, works against German measles virus in the test tube. And it is safe enough to have been used with promising results on influenza patients. Such a drug may help children, but proving its safety for pregnant women will take years...
...Emma's erratic behavior-her abrupt cancellation of a garden party without informing the guests, her abrupt departure for Calais without informing her husband. And continually there is apparently a kind of dreary obeisance to Emma's perpetual pains-her lame knee and sprained ankle, chills and influenza, shingles and failing eyesight. A reader can easily sympathize with a wry line in her husband's notebook: "Love lives on propinquity, but dies of contact...
...seat of a car; a locked classroom and bare floor, if nothing else is available. It is a happy rule that men can no longer legislate away desire. They can only temper it with physical or mental discomfort or, if the night is cold, with a creeping fear of influenza...