Word: rabid
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...campaign against rabies, has passed another milestone test. Writing in the Journal of the American Medical Association, a team of U.S. and Iranian doctors last week reported that they recently administered the vaccine in a series of only six shots to 45 Iranians who had been bitten by rabid animals-nine by wolves and 36 by dogs. Not a single victim developed rabies or showed a severe allergic reaction. Reason: the new vaccine, unlike the old, is cultured in human rather than animal cells. Thus, while the patients develop antibodies against rabies, they do not suffer painful reactions...
...Colts. The two teams both arrived in the city in the early 50s, but the gridders were the first to enjoy success. By 1958, Johnny Unitas had taken them to the top and made them the victors of The Greatest Game Ever Played, and Baltimore was famous for its rabid football fans...
...with the publication of Eleven New Cantos (31 through 41), Pound began his rabid anti-Semitic attacks with lines like these...
...much too cynical. There are some elements of imperial Britain in his attitude--Arabs tend to smell, for example, and Americans are vulgar and prone to cowboy delusions. There is a mystifying section in The Schirmer Inheritance where a woman whose family has been killed by the Gestapo--a rabid German-hater--falls passionately in love with a dominant and brutal ex-Nazi, as though this is the other side of the coin. But in general Ambler has a wide and realistic understanding of how the world works: each book is rich in historical detail, psychological insight, and another added...
About Birch Bayh there is one lesson to be learned: he was another tragic victim--as Stuart Symington was in 1960--of the Edmund Muskie syndrome; acceptable to all, the first and rabid choice of almost none (excepting the Harvard people who worked...