Word: rabid
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...official explanation for their banishment: their squabbling over Seretse's marriage to a blonde London typist endangered tribal unity. The real reason: to placate South Africa's rabid, racist Prime Minister Daniel Malan, who is ready to seize any excuse to take over Bechuanaland, which borders his country to the north...
...killing half a million head a year in Mexico alone. A rabies-infected bat shows no symptoms for three months or so; then it suddenly goes mad, even attacks other vampires. In this way, the disease is transmitted from one bat to another. Within three to 15 days, the rabid vampire dies; anything it has bitten during that period is likely to contract derriengue...
...Found only in the warmer parts of the Americas, Desmodus rotundus feeds exclusively on blood. The bite of a non-rabid vampire ordinarily does a human victim no serious harm, but rabid vampires are deadly. Derriengue, like other forms of rabies, can be prevented by vaccination...
...then grab a handful of electrons and get them out of it. In the opinion of Murray Leinster (real name: Will F. Jenkins), dean of U.S. science fictioneers, the formula has been badly overworked. He is tired of galactic worlds, space ships, bug-eyed monsters and the few thousand rabid fans who cry for them. Along with most book publishers, he would like to see "SF" go respectable, or at least sensible, keep one foot and preferably two on the ground-and even try for a slightly more polished prose...
...young man in a huge toy factory who invents a laughing doll called a flahooley. Then, by rubbing a magic lamp, he conjures up a genie who can turn out flahooleys at will. The genie soon gluts the market and becomes the object of an inflamed and rabid genie hunt, with everybody vainly trying to send him back to his native lamp...