Word: lurking
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Relapsing malaria is difficult to cure because the tiny parasites that cause the disease lurk in the viscera, where they are hard to reach with drugs. SN 13,274 is the best of a long series of drugs that researchers have developed as improvements on quinine and atabrine. Dr. Elderfield hopes that supplies of the drug will soon be available for nearly half a million ex-G.I.s who have had relapses of malaria...
Temper the Wind (by Edward Mabley & Leonard Mins; produced by Barnard Straus & Roland Haas) takes a stern look at postwar Germany. It is frankly polemical-a stage editorial dramatizing the dangers to peace that lurk within a defeated Germany, and the responsibilities that are fumbled and even selfishly flouted by Americans...
...level of radiation" will rise. People living near the plants will get more gamma rays through their gonads. So will people farther away, affected by radioactive by-products from the plants' exhausts. Possible result: more redheaded children will be born in black-haired families, and more mutations will lurk in the germ plasm to scandalize future neighbors...
...bother the black cat that slinks through the shadows. But keep an eye on the black fascists who lurk in the world, their ranks barely dented by the good work at Nuremberg...
...Boosting" of the glad-hand variety and over-extended faculty control are evils that may lurk in the fringe of any effort to stimulate extracurricular activity. But the ever-present sensitivity of the established organizations would guard against encroachment from above and, as for the over-enthusiastic boosters--they would disappear with the first frosts of local indifference. A strengthened group of special-interest activities would remain, supported by a larger portion of the College and interested faculty...