Word: strains
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Negro six-year-olds tripped quietly into the schools, the crowds grew wilder. A white waitress raised a tattooed arm, threw a rock and hit a Negro woman on the chest. A Negro woman guided her grandchild quietly through a gauntlet of hissing whites until she broke under the strain, undid one button of her blouse and drew a knife. "If any of you jump me, I'm going to use this," she cried. All pretense at education collapsed as the Battle of Nashville got under...
...help of the Pasteur Institute's famed bacteriologist Dr. Camille Guérin, 84, TB Fighter Rosenthal records the disappointments attending early efforts to perfect a TB vaccine, then the surprising success of France's late Dr. Albert Calmette, with Guérin collaborating, in attenuating a strain of tubercle bacilli taken from human patients by growing them in cattle. The trouble was that the vaccine, now universally known as BCG (for Bacillus of Calmette and Guérin), got a bad name early. The first enthusiasts made exaggerated claims for it, and in the late 1920s, virulent...
Belly-Bottom Strain. Then Sal's pals are off again, by bus. on foot, by thumb, roaming the continent, feeling the wind of Wyoming nights and the heat of Texas days, looking for Moriarty's never-to-be-found father or anyone's sister, always expecting the ultimate in music or love or understanding around the next bend in the road. Excitement and movement mean everything. Steady jobs and homes in the suburbs are for the "squares...
...then he rises to his fate and has to blow equal to it. All of a sudden, somewhere in the middle of the chorus he gets it . . . Time stops. He's filling empty space with the substance of our lives, confessions of his belly bottom strain, remembrance of ideas, rehashes of old blowing...
...British vaccine differs from the U.S. chiefly in not using the virulent Mahoney strain to immunize against Type 1 polio infections. It substitutes a less virulent strain of the same type...