Word: leper
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...rebels or to give urgency to his Foreign Secretary's plea for action. True, he sturdily supported German rearmament ("It astonished me that anyone can imagine the mighty, buoyant German race being relegated to a kind of no man's land in Europe and a sort of leper status at the mercy, and remaining at the mercy, of Soviet invasion"), but he weakened the case for EDC by talking of including the Germans in "EDC, or NATO, or some variant between them." He also urged greater trade with Russia, and asked for "a substantial relaxation of the regulations...
Recently, through his syndicate, Dallis got a letter of protest from a former attendant at the Carville, La. leprosarium. Rex, it seemed, had chided one of his comic-strip friends for treating his girl "like a leper." Result: after Morgan puts Landros behind bars, he will tackle the subject of leprosy, or, as Carville prefers to call it, Hansen's disease...
...reader follows Jean into a dissecting room, where he cuts up cadavers; a slum, where he meets a leper; a hovel, where he hears a baby "leave the mother's belly with a moist squelching sound"; a ward, where he observes a woman choke to death of slow asphyxia, and hears from the puffed lips of a badly burned man "the most piercing shrieks that suffering can ever have brought forth"; an operating room, where he watches a leg being amputated at the thigh as a little surgical saw bites splinters off the bone and the limb breaks away...
Secure in his middle-class respectability, the average American has chronically regarded the waterfront as a social leper colony. It is to him a place about which novels are written, but entered only at one's own risk. The waterfront has been one of the last American outposts of the old English poorhouse theory: that improving economic welfare will be but contributing to saloons. This fact has not gone unnoticed or unresented by the many men who load ships to make an honest living. Partly because they lacked alternative help, they have given their support to those leaders...
Last month a British orange farmer caught two Nguru tribesmen stripping his trees. In a scuffle with police, one Nguru was killed. The violence spread. In Mala-mulo, the American Seventh-Day Adventist mission, with 200 leper patients in its hospital, was besieged by jeering tribesmen. Bands of Ngurus roamed the green countryside, chopping down telephone poles, blocking roads, stoning whites' cars. One British teagrower was seized, forced to stand still while Ngurus sharpened their pangas on the soles of his shoes and made mock passes through his hair with the knives...