Word: polio
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...more and fancier cars (see BUSINESS IN 1952). Its enterprising suburb builders raised up almost overnight a new Levittown beside the Delaware River, bigger at birth than the pre-Revolutionary Pennsylvania cities of York and Lancaster. Its patient medical researchers found drugs that gave promise of conquering TB and polio. Its impatient newspaper readers doused themselves inside & out with another wonder drug, chlorophyll, and followed the Wars of the Roses-Eleanor and Billy...
...Kennedy’s March 7 hearing. Kennedy was not drunk at the time of the incident and the arrest was due to the police officer’s misconstruing Kennedy’s physical condition, Pepe said yesterday. The 60-year-old professor limps because he had polio as a child, according to the lawyer. “It’s hard to fault the police,” he said. “Under 95 percent of the circumstances, they did what was appropriate.” Kennedy left his house around 1 a.m. the night...
...written several books, most of them on money and literature. However, some of them are more biographical, such as a book on polio and his most recent work, “Stutter...
...says that while scientists are not certain what causes stuttering, he is sure that the shock of having polio and the resulting “trauma of being divided body and soul” triggered the genetic impediment, which has affected other members of his family...
Similarly, analysis about the links between verbal and physical stumbling leads Shell to discuss polio, from which he also suffered as a child and has previously examined in an equally interdisiplinary book...