Word: polio
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...decisions would come to him. A politician to his fingertips, he rejoiced in party combat. "I'm an old campaigner, and I love a good fight," he would say, and "Judge me by the enemies I have made." An optimist who fought his own brave way back from polio, he brought confidence and hope to a scared and stricken nation...
...passage of legislation to protect workers. In the process she discovered that she had talents--for public speaking, for organizing, for articulating social problems. She formed an extraordinary constellation of lifelong female friends, who helped to assuage an enduring sense of loneliness. When Franklin was paralyzed by polio in 1921, her political activism became an even more vital force. She became Franklin's "eyes and ears," traveling the country gathering the grass-roots knowledge he needed to understand the people he governed...
...example, money allotted for polio research was rerouted to other medical research in the early 1960s after a vaccine for polio was found...
...world. Now the the focus of evil in American life is...the tobacco industry. The fellows who make cigarettes may be--indeed are--mendacious, but they do produce a legal product that earlier generations found alternately pleasurable and obnoxious but never evil. Our parents and our grandparents worried about polio epidemics. Today the great public-health crisis is the secondhand smoke from thy neighbor's Marlboro...
...into something different," she writes. "I would write my own history of growing up in the fifties--when my neighbors formed an extended family, when television was young, when the street was our common playground, when our lives seemed free from worry, until one remembered the sweeping fears of polio, communist subversion, and the atomic bomb that hung over our childhood days like low-lying clouds...