Word: influenza
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...herself has told her own story, she was orphaned at six (both parents died of influenza in 1918), passed around among relatives, and sent to a convent in Seattle. She went East to Vassar (class of 1933), became a Phi Beta Kappa in her senior year, and married successively an actor called Harold Johnsrud (divorce), Edmund Wilson, the novelist-critic (divorce, one son, now 16), and finally Bowden Broadwater, an occasional writer some years her junior...
...Central Virus Laboratory, run by famed Virologist Joseph Smadel, is concerned with the multitude of diseases caused by the smallest of microbes, which can knock troops out in no time (best example: the 1918-19 influenza pandemic). The lab has the Government's only polio diagnostic center. Says Dr. Smadel: "Our work ranges all the way from the fundamental and theoretical to the most practical. We can both develop theories and apply them. Aside from the Rockefeller Foundation, nobody else does research of this scope...
...than Maxim Gorky's own death in August 1936. At first Moscow reported the old (68) man's death as natural, but in the vast purge trials two years later, the Kremlin charged NKVD Chief Genrikh Yagoda with hastening Gorky's end (enforced exposure to grippe, influenza and the weather) and masterminding the killing of Gorky's son. Gouzenko believes Yagoda killed Gorky on Stalin's orders...
Rumors were widespread along the Gold Coast and throughout the Yard that the College would have to be recessed because of increasing cases of influenza, but the big news of the opening year was that Coach Arnold Horween '29 would return to lead the football team toward another highly successful year. The announcement gave further encouragement that 1929 would prove a fitting climax to the Roaring Twenties...
...Recorded?" Through the glass doors came West Virginia's Democratic Senator Harley Kilgore, who had been resting on a couch in his office all afternoon. In the second day of an influenza attack, Kilgore had been ordered by his doctor to go home, but he had insisted on staying around to vote. Sick, drowsy with medicine, Kilgore stared groggily at Nixon. Nixon stared back, waiting for some sign that Kilgore wanted to be recognized. Kilgore, who had been having dental trouble and was being fitted for a new plate, ran his tongue rhythmically over his gums. He said nothing...