Word: rabid
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Public Health scientists got interested back in 1953 after a Florida boy was bitten by a bat that was found to be infected with rabies. The boy survived, but investigation showed that other apparently healthy bats were rabid too. At first, the danger from rabid bats seemed small because bat bites are a rare problem among humans. Then in 1956 a Texan who had been banding bats went partially blind, had convulsive seizures when he tried to drink water, and soon died. Rabies virus was found in his brain. In 1959 a California mining engineer who had been searching caves...
...such friendly U.S. alumni as India's Under Secretary for External Affairs, the director of the Iraqi Atomic Energy Commission, Colombia's Minister of Mines, and Venezuela's Minister of Finance. What seems significant is the Argentine pattern of students who leave for the U.S. as rabid anti-Yankees, return emphatically...
Yale built its championship team under the standard Ivy League requirements, which would drive a Big Ten coach to despair: no athletic scholarships, plus entrance standards that are among the highest in the nation. Even so, rabid Yale alumni across the country were able to sell a flock of bright and burly boys on the idea of going to New Haven. The Chicago area alone-long a source of raw material for football foundries-supplied six starters, including Quarterback Singleton (6 ft., 200 Ibs.), Captain Pyle (6 ft. 3 in., 233 lbs.), and Center Hardy Will...
Marx v. Machetes. Roger Riou's father, a chef on the liner Ile de France, was a rabid Communist, his mother also a dedicated Red. So thoroughly did they train their child that Roger was selling the Communist newspaper L'Humanité on sidewalks at the age of nine. At twelve, he was militating in a Communist youth gang, apparently convinced on his own that Communism was the answer to mankind's problems. During the long hours of his stretch in solitary at reform school Roger began to doubt Red doctrine. Later, the sympathetic director...
Even then he was a strange mixture of rabid rebel and good companion-the original Angry Young Man, full of both compassion and wit. The war with the Kaiser was none of his concern: his battle was with the thoughtless world of privilege that allowed his father to choke to death of a miner's lung disease and never offered a tuppence in workmen's compensation. In 1929 he burst upon Parliament "like some great disturbance of nature" as the new member from Ebbw Vale...