Word: rashness
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Radcliffe waltz was a contest hardly in doubt after the opening minutes. After a rash of Radcliffe fouls at the outset, the team grabbed a 8-4 lead...
Unlike other viral diseases transmitted by insects, birds or mammals, smallpox is spread by man himself. Its sole "vector" is a person actually afflicted with the disease; he is contagious only during the four weeks between the appearance of the disfiguring rash and the scaling off of the ugly scabs that form on its pustules. If all those who come in contact with the victim during that period have already been vaccinated or are immune from previous infection, the human transmission chain is broken and the disease is not passed...
...reasonable" fee: "All that the traffic can bear." Psychiatry, he says, has lately been "lit by rare flashes of brilliance such as transactional analysis and fornication therapy." As for pediatricians, he asks: "What kind of intellect opts to spend the better part of its professional life with diaper rash as its most common challenge...
...King Juan Carlos nearly four months ago, Suárez, 44, has had to balance pressures from rightists, leftists and regional separatists while trying to guide Spain from Franco-era authoritarianism to a new age of democracy. He has also had to cope with a deteriorating economy and a rash of demonstrations, strikes and violence...
...rash of scare headlines had predictable consequences, emptying crowded clinics everywhere. In New York City, only 7,500 people showed up a day after the first deaths were reported, compared with 21,000 on the previous day. Irritated by what he called the press's "body count" mentality, Dr. Theodore Cooper, HEW's assistant secretary for health, snapped: "Someone, I hear, dropped dead in South Carolina after reading the consent form [required of all those to be inoculated]. Should that be attributed to the swine-flu program...