Word: sic
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...with "a hypodermic needle that looks like an air pump for Zeppelins. . . . You walk away, saying, 'Well, that wasn't too bad.' Then, suddenly, you fall to the floor in a dead faint. When you wake up, you look at your arm and discover the bicep [sic] you never suspected was there...
General Adolphe Eugene Marie Sicé (pronounced See-say), High Commissioner of Free French Africa, stopped off in Manhattan on his way to London last week and received encomiums on his stout work in freeing French Equatorial Africa from the rule of Vichy. Earlier stout work by the General was not so much in the news. But it was flies-specifically the tsetse fly-from which General Sicé had first set his black people free...
Tall, rugged General Sicé, a doctor before he was a soldier, was for many years head of the Pasteur Institute at Brazzaville. Public Enemy No. 1 when General Sicé took up his duties was the deadly tsetse fly, which carries the parasites causing African sleeping sickness...
...arsenic drug tryparsamide, which kills syphilis spirochetes, also kills the trypanosomes of sleeping sickness. Developed in the Rockefeller Institute in 1919, and introduced to Africa by Dr. Louise Pearce in the '20s, tryparsamide clears up sleeping sickness in three to six months when injected twice a week. General Sicé's biggest job was persuading the natives to take the treatment. He also organized fly-killing squads. With this curative and preventive program, in 17 years General Sicé brought down the sleeping-sickness toll from 2,000,000 victims, or about 80% of the native population...
When France fell to the Nazis, the Pasteur Institute's Sicé found new public enemies to fight. He planned a successful uprising against the Vichyites entrenched in Middle Congo. When the Governor General refused to go along with the Free French, General Sicé and aides wrapped him in a blanket, threw him in a truck, dumped him over the border into the Belgian Congo...