Word: tuberculars
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...radiocrooner, said to be a libelous few to consist entirely of 98 pounds of tubercular lung, was rejected for a complaint many of his listeners spotted back in the summer: a punctured ear drum. Thus, as it must come to all men, lost hope came to Frank, who had fondly confided in a draft board teacher that he wanted to be a marine...
...Monsieur Hitler. . . . Monsieur Hitler is just part of the combination. It's the world that is cracking, our world. ... Do you know why? It's because of the worms, I mean people like me, the lice-covered malheureux, the syphilitic, tubercular garbage eaters, the great unwashed. It's we who have gnawed away the substance. . . . We have been chewing at the pillars of society since the foundation of the world. . . . There is nothing beneath your feet, absolutely nothing. . . . Earthquakes are nothing compared with what old Europe is going...
...More than 2,000,000 babies will be born in America this year. . . . Within 15 years . . . 738,386 will be ... dead, crippled, tubercular, mentally deficient, delinquent, maladjusted 'problem children.' . . . The First Key to Strong National Health [is] BIRTH CONTROL...
...without arms, men without legs, men with hollow, tubercular chests walk the streets of Madrid, Burgos, Barcelona. So do hollow-eyed women in mourning and women who look out of blank, uncomprehending eyes. Symbolic of Spain's people is the bronze statue of King Carlos in Toledo, which lies against its base with legs amputated by a shell, one arm gone and a gash from a shell fragment in its navel. Franco has decreed that the Alcazar be left unrestored, as a monument to "the fury of the Rojos...
...prevent the spread of tuberculosis by warning the population with posters: DO NOT LET YOURSELF BE KISSED; DO NOT KISS AN OTHER'S HAND. Officials entrusted with putting the admonition into effect had a job on their hands. Although the incidence of Latvian tuberculosis is high (tubercular death rate in the capital, Riga, is 120 per 100,000), the incidence of Latvian hand-kissing is much higher...