Word: typhoidal
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...devout Moslems is both spiritual duty and lifetime dream. More than 1,200,000 pilgrims entered Mecca to carry out the prayers and ablutions of Islam's most sacred ritual (see following color pictures of last year's hajj). Luckily, this year there were no outbreaks of typhoid or cholera like those that have sometimes turned the hajj into a pilgrimage of death rather than spiritual rebirth...
Died. Claranel Strange McNamara, 78, mother of the Defense Secretary, who so valued the education typhoid kept her from completing that by the time young Robert started school she had force-read him, as she said, "as much literature as a normal 13-year-old knows"; of a stroke; in Palo Alto, Calif...
...indeed there were plenty left behind. In Stanleyville, where the Congolese government army was barely holding on in the face of rebel snipers and raiding parties, only the road to the airport had been cleared of corpses. In the city, dogs were seen feeding on rotting bodies. A typhoid epidemic erupted among the city's 220,000 Congolese, with only one doctor left. Snipers kept up sporadic fire against all planes landing or taking off from Stanleyville's jungle-encircled jet strip, and after a Belgian International Air Service DC-4 crashed on takeoff, killing seven, civilian aircraft...
Thus the boy was thoroughly infected with the bug of self-experimentation. Gassed in World War I, he plunged into experiments to compare the effectiveness of different types of gas masks. Sent to India, he tested the value of his typhoid inoculation by deliberately drinking unboiled water and chewing betel nuts bought at filthy roadside stands. Haldane did not get typhoid-but he caught a sand-fly fever, which was about...
...Typhoid is no longer the dreaded, deadly plague of old, now that antibiotics can usually cure it. But while the inquiry went on, Aberdeen remained a beleaguered city...