Word: philadelphia
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Philadelphia's tough-talking Democratic mayor, Frank Rizzo, has long been as hard on syntax as he is on the "vermin" he blames for his city's problems with crime and decline. During his campaign for a second four-year term in 1975, for instance, the blustery former police chief offered Philadelphians a typically unpunctuated promise: "Just wait after November you'll have a front row seat because I'm going to make Attila the Hun look like a faggot...
...Philadelphia...
...disease. Officials suspected that the total number of people stricken by the baffling illness in Vermont over the past two months was at least 54-and most likely dozens more. That would make the outbreak the worst since the discovery of the disease at an American Legion convention in Philadelphia in the summer of 1976, when 181 people were hospitalized and 29 died. Only the prompt decision of the Vermont doctors-made before they had the results from Atlanta-to administer erythromycin kept the toll from climbing higher; the antibiotic is the only one known so far to be effective...
...right. The CDC has now confirmed that 24 people have died of Legionnaires' disease in 19 states since the Philadelphia epidemic. It also suspects there may be as many as 2,000 undetected cases a year. Though scientists believe that the culprit is a slow-growing, rod-shaped (as yet unnamed) bacterium, they do not know where it lives in nature, how it spreads or why it is so lethal. Only one thing seems sure. The bug was almost certainly around, even if misdiagnosed, long before the Legionnaires gathered for their ill-fated convention in Philadelphia...
...Philadelphia Story. At the Coolidge Corner Theatre, Friday and Saturday at 7:35. With Woman of the Year...