Word: rashes
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...stationed at the San Diego naval base when she met Nolan Holdridge, a parachute rigger, early in 1945. Except for occasional asthma attacks, Joyce was a healthy young woman who rarely missed a day of duty driving a station wagon. While going out with Holdridge, she noticed a red rash on her wrists, but thought little of it. In 1946 they were married...
...Soon the rash spread up Joyce's arms and down her body. The itching was almost unbearable. When Holdridge was shipped overseas, her rash went away. When he came back, so did the rash. Soon, on her way to work as a telephone operator in San Francisco, Joyce Holdridge was hiding behind a newspaper on the bus, wearing dark glasses to cover her swollen eyes, dressing in long-sleeved, high-necked blouses. In the evenings and on days off she never left the house, says she, because "I looked so terrible...
...University of California clinic, all medication failed. Her condition was diagnosed as atopic dermatitis-or inflammation of the skin due to some abnormal sensitivity. What sensitivity, the doctors did not know. Joyce Holdridge was put to bed for two weeks at Fort Miley Veterans' Hospital, and the rash vanished. Back with her husband, it returned. "By this time," she says, "we knew...
...Prepared. In New Albany, Ind., Head Librarian Elsa Strassweg resigned herself to the current rash of book thefts: the Bible and the Boy Scout Handbook...
Formerly given over to tennis courts, and, from 1874 to 1893 the home of Harvard's first football teams, Jarvis Field broke out in a rash of temporary housing...