Word: latent
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Danish authorities think they have got around this by using ⅓ cc. under the skin.) Some experts oppose injections of any kind into the muscle during the polio season because they fear that the needle may provoke a flare-up by a latent polio infection that otherwise would have done no harm. Dr. Salk did not feel that this objection was decisive, but would leave the verdict to local health officers...
...devised, but they might delay vaccination programs. Second (and here Ike showed that he had been briefed in a highly technical field), scientists have suspected "a reaction or a development that you might call the provocative effect of this vaccine. You or I, or a little child . . . might have latent polio germs in his system . . . Now the actual puncture of the skin . . . might cause some trouble." This was true, but it had been no less true during last year's field trials, when no such ill effects had been noted. This year's paralytic polio cases following vaccination...
...Buckley's subject, "The Liberal Mind" was delivered with the purpose of exposing some of the latent fallacies of in the liberal mind--namely its inconsistency, its intolerance, and its basic disregard for precise evaluation of facts and evidence. I do not know Mr. Gwirtzman. I do not know if he possesses a liberal mind. I do not know if he possesses a mind. Yet it is obvious to me that his report of the Buckley lecture exemplified the same kind of inconsistency of which Mr. Buckley was concerned. Indeed, Mr. Gwirtzman might well deserve the title of "mental spastic...
...prevailing gloom is laced with latent excitement, for he fills his brush strokes with nervous energy and uses crude but dramatic color schemes involving generous clouds of black and ultramarine which emit red and white flashes. Composition is perhaps his strong point: like most of his canvases. Hultberg's Airport (see cut) looks elaborate as a house of cards, yet solid as a concrete runway...
...Otto, the would-be playwright, forever scribbles his friends' dialogue into notebooks, but rarely gets a chance to test-fly a line ("I'd say he was a latent heterosexual...