Word: kill
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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With the wholesale, often haphazard use of antimicrobial drugs (sulfas and antibiotics), easy-to-kill bacteria are becoming rarer, while resistant strains, especially of Staph. aureus, are rampant. As Boston's Dr. Carl Waldemar Walter told the surgeons: "These drugs kill the sissies among the bacteria and leave the toughs." Philadelphia's Dr. Robert I. Wise reported a nationwide eruption of "hot" staph strains since 1950. Doctors and nurses are the greatest menace: in some areas, 67% of them are healthy carriers of hot staph, as against 30% of their patients. By contrast, the rate among people...
...Winslow Homer, also by Goodrich, reverently explores the austere, hermit master, who wrote to a would-be biographer: "I think that it would probably kill me to have [a biography] appear, and as the most interesting part of my life is of no concern to the public, I must decline to give you any particulars in regard...
...They then separated us and I didn't see him any more until 1100 hours. His shirt was torn, no glasses on, blood and scratches on his face and red bruises all over his body. He was also crying and saying: 'They're going to kill...
...product of a "death drive"? Is civilization at the mercy of a nameless army of self-annihilators, men who kill with an almost sexual relish because they are secretly in love with death? In The War Lover (an October Book-of-the-Month Club choice), Novelist John Hersey (The Wall, A Single Pebble) has apparently sworn by the beard of Freud to bed Mars on the analyst's couch...
Despite the enormous growth of giant corporations, which pessimists predict will kill off small companies, the U.S. now has a third more independent businesses than it had at the end of World War II. They are growing faster than the population; the ratio of business enterprises to the general population is one-fifth higher than...