Word: throat
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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When Rebecca Craighill Lancefield was a child around the turn of the century, scarlet fever seemed a dangerous disease that was easy enough to diagnose but difficult to treat. The victim got a raging sore throat, a high fever, and a rash that spread over most of his body and gave the illness its name. But physicians and bacteriologists found that though they could suppress the rash, they could do little else for their patients. Researchers also found that patients who had one bout of scarlet fever might never have another, but if they got the same kind of sore...
...knot curled in my throat--a knot that seems to have not been broken...
...original Greek." But stubby young Sir Thomas delivered "a heavy slogger" to Shelley's middle, and the poet turned tail and ran. Not many years later, Gronow reports with disinterest, young Styles was driven mad by fleas and heat during the Peninsular War and cut his throat from ear to ear with a razor...
...various times, the President sucked on gumdrops to ease a hoarse throat, threw a high school band off key by marching into its midst to autograph the bass drum and led his own cheers with the help of a bullhorn, crying: "All the way with L.B.J...
...opened her mouth and the vast hall filled with the "Polonaise" from Mignon. She had the voice of a woman. "I was a child freak," she says. "I had a four-octave range. It was a thin, reedy but very powerful voice. My parents carted me off to a throat specialist, who discovered that I had an adult larynx." Soon Julie became one of the youngest performers ever to give a Royal Variety Performance...