Word: typhoid
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Bitter Motto. The refugees huddle in leaky tents, dress in tatters, live on dates and flour. Their children run wild; the camps are periodically menaced by smallpox, dysentery, typhoid. The Arab refugees' bitter motto: "The enemy of my enemy is my friend...
Before the twins joined the order, their names were Isabelle and Lucille Gay-the daughters of a Faribault, Minn, organist who had lost his own sight as a result of typhoid fever. Their father taught them Braille, sent them off to study the piano. The twins worked hard, and in time, were ready to play in public. Soon they became a familiar sight on Midwestern concert stages...
...second wife. (He divorced his first, the beautiful Fawzia, a sister of Egypt's unbeautiful King Farouk, partly because she did not produce a son.) The Shah and Soraya (whose mother was German) were to be married last Dec. 27; the wedding was postponed because the bride got typhoid. Present plans call for a Feb. 12 wedding...
Stars in My Crown (MGM) nostalgically recalls life in a small Southern town at the turn of the century. Its rambling, episodic story, adapted by Joe David Brown from his own novel, follows the town parson (Joel McCrea) through a typhoid epidemic, a friendly joust with a local skeptic (the late Alan Hale), a feud with a young, unproven doctor (James Mitchell), a brush with the Ku Klux Klan on behalf of a Negro parishioner (Juano Hernandez...
After war jitters had caused Mohamed Reza Pahlevi, the Shah of Iran, to discourage presents and cancel plans for lavish wedding parties this week, his fiancée, Soraya Esfandiari, recovering from typhoid, came down with the grippe and the wedding itself was postponed for a month...