Word: rashes
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...After a rash of scare stories in 1949 about bacteriological warfare, the late Defense Secretary James Forrestal issued a carefully worded official statement. The dangers of germs as a war weapon had been grossly exaggerated, he said, but "an active research program on biological war fare ... is being conducted in the interests of national defense." Last week in Baltimore, Bacteriologist Perrin H. Long of Johns Hopkins Uni versity, addressing doctors interested in civil defense against atom bombs, called bacteriological warfare "bunk." Scientific knowledge of the subject at the moment, he said, does not point to its use as a successful...
Search & Seizure. California law aggravates the rash of malpractice suits: one trick provision compels the defendant doctor to serve as an expert witness for the plaintiff. The epidemic in Los Angeles is especially severe because Southern California is full of elderly hypochondriacs. Says Dr. Regan; "We have so many people in the fringe group here-the lunatic fringe, that is." Examples: one woman, accusing her surgeon of having left needles in her arm, stuck 26 sewing needles into herself; another woman, claiming that she had been examined without her consent, sued under the Fourth Amendment guarantee against unlawful search & seizure...
...Senate, which likes to go home to dinner, also got stuck with some nightwork. Wisconsin's rash-talking Joseph R. McCarthy rose and swung the tails of not one, but 81 Communists and party-liners (or so he said) in a wild attempt to decapitate both Harry Truman and Dean Acheson in one horrendous swing...
Communist youth were already busy scribbling "Go Home!" on walls near West Berlin's Allied offices and clubs. In the daytime they paraded through the streets bawling "Go Home! Go Home!" In a rash of Red political rallies along the Soviet sector boundary, Communist leaders called on West Berliners to join the fight for a "united, progressive" Berlin...
...appropriate comments by gumshoeing ward heelers. The name of every city, state and county employee was underlined in red ink. Devoted Democrats on the approved list were ticked off with a terse "O.K." Waverers were put on the list for attention: "Need tax reduction here when, possible." But anyone rash enough to buck the machine got more extensive treatment...