Word: valleyful
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...flat refusal to be brushed off lightly was having its effect. Stassenites claimed growing strength, spreading out from Minnesota through the upper Mississippi Valley, into the prairie and border states, with tentacles reaching into New England and the Pacific Northwest. The pros could dismiss much of that as sheer partisan exuberance. But a Gallup poll a fortnight ago showed 44% of G.O.P. voters approving his policies, only 21% opposed (for Dewey, 74%; opposed...
...first time 17-year-old Bob Hansen stepped into the pitcher's box for his Central Valley (N.Y.) high-school team this season, the bases were loaded. He calmly struck out the next three men. Then he pitched two no-hit, no-run games and struck out 34 batters in the process. They were his 26th and 27th victories in a row. So a nice man from the Chicago Cubs breezed into Bob's home town, the sleepy little Hudson River hamlet of Harriman, just ahead of a nice man from the New York Yankees...
...violation of baseball's written code for them to talk to Bob about a job in professional baseball until he finished Central Valley High School. But there was no law against talking things over with the local coach. While the talks were going on, Bob Hansen pitched his third straight no-hitter. More big-league scouts showed...
...horror that haunts this valley is a disease called verruga (literal translation: warts). It is transmitted by an almost invisible sandfly (Phlebotomus verrucarum), smaller than a mosquito, which bites only at night. Penetrating the finest netting and seams in clothing, the insect infects its victim with a parasite (Bartonella bacilliformis) that destroys red blood cells, produces a high fever and often kills within a few days...
Scientists first heard of verruga in 1870, during the building of the Central Railway, when 7,000 workers died before the rails had been pushed out of the valley. The first investigator of the disease was a medical student named Daniel A. Carrión, now a Peruvian national hero, who died after inoculating himself with serum from a patient's wart. Verruga is still something of a medical mystery. Nobody has ever found out how the sandfly acquires its parasite, where it lays its eggs, why it seems to have thrived only in one narrow area. Doctors have...