Word: sores
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...unique. Among his diplomatic victories he could list such achievements as the reciprocal trade agreements, the Good Neighbor policy, the 1943 Moscow Declaration and the Dumbarton Oaks agreement. The Hull failures have also been impressive. In success or failure, Mr. Hull usually preserved his native dignity. That dignity was sore beset when Franklin Roosevelt torpedoed the 1933 London Economic Conference from under him. It did not desert him (though it called to its aid some white-hot Tennessee cuss words) when Pearl Harbor caught him politely conferring with two grinning Japanese diplomats. It kept him at least outwardly calm when...
...Fascist? But Foreign Minister Peluffo's proviso once again rubbed the sore spot in U.S.-Argentine relations-how Fascist is Argentina...
...microscopic mites, much like U.S. chiggers, commonly live in the damp ground around the roots of the 10-to 20-foot kunai grass which covers many Southwest Pacific lowlands. After being bitten, a man usually notices nothing wrong for over a week. Then a sore develops at the bite, followed by fever, headache and swollen glands near the bite. Next come a rash, temperatures up to 105°, restlessness or apathy, perhaps delirium, pneumonia (20% of cases), temporary deafness, constipation, bronchitis, vomiting, heart inflammation. It is severe heart damage which causes most of the deaths. In other cases, the fever...
Harvard is in a particularly dangerous position because the masses of men in training, coming and going through the College from warmer climates, are especially susceptible victims to grippe, pneumonia, sore throate, and influenza...
...their first sore sample of Pacific plowing on Efate, in the New Hebrides, where they planted their first seed. Thick virgin underbrush had to be uprooted, coral sand scraped away. But with the help of French prison labor, they were soon producing. Last Christmas the boys had 15,000 ears of sweet corn...