Word: nasality
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...firmly entrenched in hospitals. Epidemics usually begin in the nurseries. Since the babies do not bring them into the nursery, where do they come from? Usually, the investigators found, from nurses. In some hospitals, as many as 80% of personnel have been found to carry staph in their nasal passages (without apparent illness). The proportion who carry the resistant strains, causing disease outbreaks, may be only 4% to 12%, but once a wave of infections starts rolling, it is hard to stop. Healthy adults have a high degree of immunity, but its nature is not yet understood, and no vaccine...
...Sound. Philosophizes Chicago Deejay Marty Faye on rock 'n' roll: "The kids have accepted this twanging guitar, this nasal, unintelligible sound, this irritating sameness of lyrics, this lamentable croak. They've picked a sound all their own, apart from anything the adults like. Rock 'n' roll is still as strong as ever, and we'll have to live with it until the kids find a new sound...
...steam engine, a joyfully inefficient and individualistic machine, had become the essence of what made the railroads pleasantly different from more modern forms of transportation. But since the war distressed fans have watched the roads transformed into just another mass-produced product of General Motors. Almost everywhere the nasal blat of diesel air horns has replaced the musical tones of multiple-chime steam whistles...
...shut off the mouth from the nasal cavity and make speech and eating possible, Freud had to wear a "huge prosthesis, a sort of magnified denture or obturator.'' This instrument, says Jones, was a horror that Freud and family nicknamed "the monster." It was painful and difficult to get in or out. In one nightmare scene, neither Freud nor the hovering Anna nor a physician could get it into his mouth, and the surgeon who devised the monster had to be called. When it fitted tightly enough to fulfill its purpose, it caused recurring sores. When...
...speech became nasal and thick, like a cleft-palate victim's. Damage to the Eustachian tube and repeated infections left him almost deaf on the right side, where he had been accustomed to placing patients, so that his chair and analytic couch had to be transposed. Hardly intelligible in German, he could not surmount the added difficulties of a foreign tongue (though he had spoken English and French fluently), observed to famed Singer Yvette Guilbert: "Meine Prothese spricht nicht französisch [My prosthesis does not speak French...