Word: typhoid
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...escaped death five times (falling off a cliff, a severe case of typhoid, a plane crash, two assassination attempts), and the experiences have brought Mohammed Reza Shah Pahlevi a good deal closer to Allah, says a friend. In any case, the Shah does not like Gamal Abdel Nasser's frequent attacks calling him an infidel. So to emphasize his pride in being a good Moslem, the Iranian ruler ordered the printing of a new edition of the Koran at his own expense ($250,000 so far). Using a previously unreproduced 16th century version by Calligrapher Ahmed Neirizi, 40 experts...
...Inadmissible Evidence, Actor Nicol Williamson threw a glass of beer and a sudsy right at Merrick's head and sent him staggering into a backstage trash barrel. It is on such occasions, of course, that Merrick's critics up periscope and fire all tubes. He has been called "Typhoid David" and "Captain Hook" and "the Krishna Menon of Broadway." Director Tony Richardson says: "He's like a woman-sweet and bitchy at the same time." Anthony Quinn, who played in Merrick's Becket and Tchin-Tchin, recalls that when his vocal cords were so sore they were bleeding, Merrick snarled...
...addition to the required smallpox vaccination, the U.S. Public Health Services recommends immunization against typhoid, tetanus and poliomyelitis for all international travelers...
...addition to the required smallpox vaccination, the U.S. Public Health Services recommends immunization against typhoid, tetanus, and polioomyelitis for all international travelers...
...more prosperous suffered as well. Boulders cascaded from the hills, breaking water mains and damaging houses. Mud oozed down, clogging streets. Hordes of rats scurried from the flooded sewers, and health authorities started mass immunizations to avoid a typhoid epidemic. Electrical power failed in many neighborhoods...