Word: sores
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Baited Breath. In Joplin, Mo., Robert Kelley, after an eight years' sore throat, finally had it Xrayed, learned that he had a 3½-inch fishhook stuck...
While most of the nation's politicos were still rubbing liniment into their campaign-sore muscles, Chicago's Republicans last week plunged feverishly ahead to the next event. All over the nation's second largest city billboards shouted: "Root for Mayor...
...Along." Trying to figure out what was in the bosses' minds, the precinct captains could think of only two reasons for Root's candidacy. For one, he had smoothed over many an old sore in the Republican camp with his easy back-slapping affability and a judicious use of amiable profanity. More important, he had never questioned orders or policies from above. His stock political pronouncement: "I'll go along...
...cases among G.I.s during World War II), yaws is spread by contact. Though not venereal, it is caused by a spirochete that is indistinguishable from that of syphilis (like syphilis, it gives a positive Wasserman). Attacking through cuts or bruises, the spirochete first produces a raspberry-like running sore, usually on the legs. After a few months, sores erupt all over the body; in the third stage, the disease eats away the flesh...
Unreconverted. In Seattle, Sailor Thomas Washington climbed atop a five-story hotel, tore bricks out of the chimney, heaved them down at pedestrians, after 30 minutes of action (no casualties) was captured, explained that he was "sore at civilians...