Word: throat
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Army cussing. When the members of the First Presbyterian Church of Washington, Pa., wanted to make him an elder, he demurred. "I take a highball and cuss a little," he explained. They elected him anyhow. Actually he drinks very little, smokes not at all. His gravelly throat is the result of his gassing...
...this way: the Negroes had been caught trying to ram a handkerchief down a white man's throat. The white man said he was being beaten and robbed. The police chief of Mount Pleasant said he had got there just in time, or the white man would have been killed. The Negroes had been kicked and pummeled by an angry group of vengeful whites, had been saved from immediate lynching by being hustled off to jail. But a menacing mob was forming outside, and everybody knew what that meant...
...spite of these dangers and torments, pilots love their jets. "In a moment of vertical flight, you gain two miles of altitude. Your ears are popping, and the gas belches out of your throat. At 40,000 feet you feel small and high. Mountains are wrinkles in green-and-brown cloth, and cities are patches of ragged wire screen. The upper altitudes are silent except for the slight singing hum of the whirling rotor behind...
...veteran freshmen who failed to make the grade will have to choose between the Freshman, and Junior Varsity squads--they'll be eligible for either, and coaches Henry Lamar and Chief Boston of the respective aggregations are gazing at each other with jaundiced eye in anticipation of cut-throat competition for players...
...smallest known) attacks only nerve cells, is almost never found in the blood. The disease occurs naturally only in man; researchers have been able to reproduce it artificially only in monkeys, cotton rats and specially bred mice (by injection of certain strains of the virus). Because its symptoms-sore throat, fever, headache, nausea, muscle stiffness-are much like those of the common cold, polio is hard to diagnose in its early stages; the only sure way is to inject an extract from the patient's excreta into a laboratory animal. Some pertinent polio facts...