Word: rashes
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...rash of Harvard penalties magnified any difference in ability between the two teams. Five Crimson players served two each, and Cle Landon served three...
Painful Choice. Another bug-this one viral-made the hours before liftoff almost as tense as the launch itself. The countdown for the mission was about to begin when Astronaut Charles Duke, of the Apollo 13 back-up crew, complained of chills, fever and a rash. Doctors diagnosed his illness as rubella, or German measles. Duke had apparently caught the disease from the children of friends. Dismayed NASA officials immediately ordered blood tests of Apollo 13's first-line crew members, who had come in contact with Duke during several preflight conferences. Both Astronauts Jim Lovell and Fred Haise...
...Rash of Incidents
...Chicago post office simply ground to a halt for nearly three weeks under a glut of 10 million letters and packages. Even first-class letters can take several days to travel a few miles-or even blocks-whereas overnight service used to be taken for granted. Last July, a rash of sick calls at one post office in The Bronx produced what was, in effect, a strike...
...publication Commerce Business Daily last week was an intriguing appeal. The U.S. Department of Transportation was calling for proposals to develop equipment that could spot and quickly identify "dynamite and other explosive vapors diffusing out of closed baggage." The implication of the notice was plain. Alarmed by the recent rash of bombings, on the ground and in the air, the Government is stepping up its efforts to encourage the design and manufacture of an effective bomb detector...