Word: polio
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...their two-year-old son, he lives in two rooms (rent: $18 a month) in the working class barrio of Jesus del Monte. Most days Catalino comes home to a dinner of beans and rice, and Sundays, before going out to the ball game, he favors arroz con polio. But rice is almost as scarce as meat these days, and lately Violeta has filled out the meal with vegetables...
Stanford Chemists Hubert S. Loring and C. E. Schwerdt had pondered a strange puzzle. Like other polio virus hunters, they had ground up and sifted the brains and spinal cords of nobody knows how many infected rats and monkeys. They had prepared virulent extracts, capable of transmitting the disease. But when they refined their material further, its virulence somehow disappeared...
Soprano Lawrence, a polio victim, appeared in her now familiar wheel chair to sing the immolation scene from Wagner's Gotterdammerung. Said one German afterwards: "Wagner has now been officially denazified...
...opinionated old Portraitist Augustus John: "To have him portrayed permanently on his legs or somebody else's (even without walking stick!) would be an intolerable solecism, dishonoring to a great and unvanquished spirit, and a lasting monument to British ineptitude only." Opera Singer Marjorie Lawrence, like Roosevelt a polio victim, asked "Why not present...
London Times Associate Editor Donald Tyerman, another polio sufferer, wrote a letter to his own columns, disagreeing with the complaints. Said he: "The protest . . is surely based on a misconception. The ambition and pride of the disabled, as I have some reason to know, is to stand on their own feet...