Word: leper
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Next to a colony of Tibetan beggars, whom he feeds and looks after, lives long-bearded Protestant Missionary Walter Morse. His only assistant is a young Tibetan leper, who lives with him for treatment and serves coffee to visitors. Morse tries to reassure his guests: "I think I've got him to the arrested stage where he can't spread the disease." Last year anthropologist Prince Peter of Greece and Denmark breezed into Kalimpong with his wife to study a unique form of Tibetan polyandry called za-sum-pa, the sharing of wives between fathers and sons...
...sound, it was a true variation of the secret ballot. Now, hard rubber balls are used; though they drop noiselessly, rumor has spread among Yugoslavs that they fall with a distinct "plop!", and that anyone who does not choose the Titoist list proclaims himself as publicly as a medieval leper with a bell...
...things turned out, it was not leprosy at all, even though the sores looked real and the girl had worn a leper's turban. "Disgusting poultices" applied by the dead girl's father soon "cured" the lieutenant; but Author Flaiano applies no explanatory poultices whatever to readers tricked for 160 pages into shivering with the lieutenant over a phony case of leprosy...
...deeply religious son of a Presbyterian minister, Dr. McNeilly saw his chance when the Navy announced that the post of officer-in-charge would soon be open at one of the world's newest and most remote leper colonies, on the flat, tiny Pacific island of Tinian, once a B-29 base. Dr. McNeilly asked...
...Tinian, 32 square miles in the Marianas, polyglot leper patients may come from any of the thousands of islands scattered over the watery 3,000,000 sq. mi. of the Trust Territory (former Japanese mandate). Dr. McNeilly will have a warrant officer, four corpsmen, three native nurses and two native aids to help...