Word: polio
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Waikiki Beach, pretty Nina ("Honey Bear") Warren, visiting Hawaii with her father, California's Governor Earl Warren, cavorted in the surf on well-turned legs that are still regaining strength after her successful fight against a polio attack a year...
...eyed blonde who did her practicing in leopard-skin tights, but put on a more conservative black & red outfit for the competition. A Boston Skating Club protegee of Old Pro Willie Frick, willowy (5 ft. 6 in., 120 Ibs.) Tenley Albright recovered well enough from a 1947 attack of polio to be runner-up in this year's nationals...
Then came catastrophe. Three-year-old Karen, third of the Anderson's four children, was taken to the hospital with polio. A few days later, Pastor Anderson came down with it. Hazel Anderson's mother died of a heart attack brought on by the news. Then Tibert Anderson himself died...
...China and study disease (they have so much there), but that doesn't seem quite the thing to do at the moment. A friend of ours isn't interested in "finding a cure for cancer" -he happens to be too busy looking for a cure for polio, with all the complicated tools research demands these days...
...amid the poverty and open sewers of Mexico's Lower California. Most U.S. babies, while enjoying their brief afterbirth immunities, are so carefully guarded against infection that they have no chance to develop active immunities of their own. Whereas Mexican babies in Lower California presumably are exposed to polio, and develop lifelong "active" immunities...