Word: virus
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...mouth disease is rarely fatal-most animals recover after two or three weeks of painful blisters on the hoof, tongue and inside of the mouth-it strikes fiercely at dairy cattle, sharply reducing their milk production and afflicting them with sterility, heart trouble and chronic lameness. Produced by a virus, the disease is rampantly contagious, can be carried by humans (who very rarely contract it), birds, wild animals, frozen meat and even the wind. To combat its dread effects, Britain's Ministry of Agriculture has adopted a Draconian policy: the slaughter of an entire herd if even one animal...
...banned in certain areas, racing pigeons could not be transported to and from Northern Ireland, and wild stag -a favorite seasonal dish-was swept from table. From Dorset to Angus, husbandmen feverishly telephoned neighbors to discover if a new outbreak had occurred, isolated themselves from visitors for fear the virus would be tracked...
...developed an embarrassing infection ($33.806). Spartacus cost Fireman's Fund $632,197 (against a typical premium of $70,227 on a $4,100,000 policy) when Jean Simmons had an appendectomy, Tony Curtis broke his Achilles tendon and Supergladiator Kirk Douglas was leveled by a virus maximus...
TIME'S INNUENDO ABOUT MURROW'S FAILURE TO APPEAR ELECTION NIGHT IS SLANDEROUS. IS DOUBLE VIRUS PNEUMONIA NOT ENOUGH, OR DOES TIME INSIST ON TERMINAL-STAGE CANCER? MURROW HAS DONE MORE FOR BROADCAST JOURNALISM THAN ALL THE REST OF US COMBINED...
Raymond Aron, a professor who know something about France, rather amused and occasionally note of this widespread virus in own discussion of the change from Fourth to the Fifth Republic, Steadfast and Changing. His "commentators' country," he says , for "in politics, sickness is interesting than health." The commentators speak of nothing but and paradoxes; "Yesterday feared that France would die of . But now observers are she will not stand the stress of . Eternal France, whose death at any moment...