Word: sickness
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...effect that socialism, like Christianity, has not failed, because it has never been tried. Surveying Tanzania's mounting problems, for example, President Nyerere urges patience. "We are like a man who does not get smallpox because he got himself vaccinated," he explains. "His arm is sore, and he feels sick for a while. If he has never seen what smallpox does to people, he may feel very unhappy during that period and wish he had never agreed to the vaccination...
...signs that there was going to be this world-class freestyle tournament, the last day we were going to be there. We thought we were pretty hot, so we decided we'd enter two or three people. We entered Baldwin [the patrol advisor], Joe Ward and Bob. Baldwin got sick and couldn't compete...
...state refused to recognize the problem, attributing the deaths to parasites, iodine poisoning and poor farm management. The Michigan Department of Agriculture told farmers withstricken herds that their problems were unique and that other herds did not display the disease. So the farmers sold their sick cows for meat or to be ground into more feed grain, and the PBB continued through the food cycle, eventually reaching humans. Chickens and milk products were also contaminated--chicken through the feed, and milk as a product of sick cows...
Thomas said he wouldn't sell milk from such sick cows, however. "We milked the cows probably three years longer than we would've if we knew what we know now," he said. Yet for three years state veterinarians told him his cattle were suffering from low protein, or parasites--not PBB poisoning, he said. He added, "Everybody was telling us it was our problem alone...
...somnolence of Alfonso's court turned out to be hard on everyone. The orchestra, under Jesús López-Cobos, was at times embarrassingly inattentive. The Met's curtailed version of the court ballet was execrable, and Milnes, doubtless sick of climbing in and out of his throne, made the mistake of actually watching it instead of striking a rigid pose. One of the evening's genuinely endearing sights was his head turning with increasing confusion at botched patterns and fallen hats...