Word: polio
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Fantasy Life Director Francis Ford Coppola's childhood bout with polio was the unlikely beginning of a creative life
...Look at this!" I remember saying to my amazed parents when I slowly raised my left arm. Stricken with polio in 1949, I had lost all feeling in the arm and from the waist down. The doctors said I'd never walk again. I was 9. I shocked everyone by recovering 18 months later. But my guess is that I never would have become a filmmaker and developed such a rich fantasy life necessary for my work had it not been for my battle with the disease...
Back when I got it, polio was an epidemic in New York City. Without warning, I went from being an active New York kid who loved baseball and being a cub scout to an invalid, confined to bed and isolated. The illness started with a high fever, which was painful and scary and lasted two days. After that, I was paralyzed. I wasn't frightened, though. But I was lonely. I had been quarantined from other kids, except for my older brother and younger sister...
Disposable diapers Charge cards Transistor radios TV dinners Polio vaccine Artificial intelligence Sputnik Velcro...
...million Number of children to be immunized by the end of the year in an effort to eradicate polio...