Word: warpath
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...Simple. The first breakthrough came in 1933. when a virus, soon dubbed influenza type A, was convicted as the cause of one epidemic. It became clear that type A was likely to take the warpath every two years or so, with severe epidemics at four-to seven-year intervals. A vaccine could be prepared to give immunity lasting up to two years. In 1940 came the discovery of type B virus, and the realization that it belonged to a different immunologic family-vaccination against type A gave no immunity against B. and vice versa. Later came recognition of type...
...another soprano, Renata Tebaldi, long-standing favorite of Scala audiences, possessor of a voice of creamy softness, musicianship of delicate sensibility, and a temperament to match. She was no match for Callas. From the beginning the two women glowered. Tebaldi stayed away from Callas' performances; Callas, on the warpath, sat in a prominent box at Tebaldi's, ostentatiously cheered, and watched her rival start to tremble. Callas sensibly -if a little too innocently-points out that there are plenty of operas for two top sopranos in La Scala's big repertory. The fact is, Callas thrives...
...with an announcement that the acquisition of the cemetery was only the first step in a fullscale Wyandotte campaign. The tribe has its sights set on an additional 1,940 acres, much of it in downtown Kansas City. Explained Chief Zane: "We've decided to go on the warpath to protect our rights. Our ancestors used tomahawks; we're using law books...
...unmapped country where Indians were apt at any time to take the warpath, Frémont persisted in carrying out his mission to the letter. When the Indians tried to use bluff, he bluffed back, and won. He won and kept for a lifetime the regard of Kit Carson and other mighty mountain men-proof enough that he had the courage and frontier skills to go with his looks and brains...
...named Eagle Chief arm-in-arm through a dance in the Great Falls, Mont. airport lobby. Eagle Chief, off the reservation, is New York's Governor Averell Harriman; the shuffles and wails were convincing demonstration that Harriman had sloughed off his "not active" role to hit the campaign warpath with all its handshaking, speechmaking, political backslapping and Indian ceremonials...