Word: sores
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...calls it house dog disease, because only house dogs get it. The sick dog usually comes from a household where someone has a cold. The illness begins with a sore throat, mouth and bronchial infection with a little fever. Most dogs recover in a week, but some go on to a frequently fatal encephalitis with convulsions, tics, paralysis, dizziness, forgetfulness or blindness. Of 309 cases of house dog disease Dr. Whitney reports in detail, 58 died of encephalitis...
...lead to atonement and forgiveness, the world will be frigid with hate and a trustworthy relationship between nations will be an impossibility. If we cannot forgive those of our own countrymen . . . even though they repent and are paying their penalties, then we will enter the future with an open sore in the national life...
...market does a $2,000 weekly gross, has brought Hart many offers to expand. Last week, he turned them all down. He feels that more stores would keep him too busy, give him little time to sit back, puff at his pipe and chortle at his fellow grocers, sore-eyed, weary-fingered, thumbing over hundreds of stamps through the nights...
...that U.S. citizens, returning from far-off fronts, may bring home a host of new, dangerous or repulsive diseases. Among the less familiar ones: African sleeping sickness, relapsing fever (a periodic fever transmitted by bedbugs), schistosomiasis, onchocerciasis, trypanosomiasis (all three, parasitic infestations), yaws (a type of stubborn skin sore indigenous to the tropics). Says Dr. Faust: fortunately, most tropical epidemics are "not like flash floods, but like slowly mounting river stages from spring thaws, giving ample time for tightened safeguards." In Dr. Faust's opinion the three diseases that need most watching...
...shirt. When he has to wear shirt and coat before an audience his collar is wilted and his clothes sopping. Even so, he stays to shake hands with his listeners, often standing three hours to do it. He says he likes it, that his hand never gets sore...