Word: wave
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Back in balmy July, when most people were concentrating on keeping cool rather than keeping well, Surgeon General William H. Stewart of the Public Health Service predicted that winter would bring a heavy wave of flu to the eastern half of the nation. He was right, and then some. Last week an influenza-like ailment had thousands of people moaning, barking, wheezing and groaning in at least 30 states east of the Rockies. Health officials in New York and at the National Communicable Disease Center in Atlanta conceded, after weeks of hedging, that the outbreak had reached epidemic proportion...
...weeks preceding Christmas, it spread to eight other states, creeping as far south as Florida. In one Alabama county, 7,000 persons went to their doctors with flulike symptoms. In Ohio, 40% of the students at one school were absent. Still, U.S. health officials refused to blame the wave of illness specifically on Asian flu. Weeks of lab testing are necessary before flu viruses can be isolated and identified. And the symptoms of Asian flu-three to four days of fever, coughing, sore throat, aches and pains-are also indicative of any number of respiratory infections...
...90th's first session un-great. "In vote after vote," he declared, "the House members of the other party lined up like wooden soldiers of the status quo." Rather than provide constructive alternatives, the Republicans sought to bury good bills "in a blanket of rhetoric beneath a wave of reaction...
...fairly stirring call to arms. Unfortunately, few Greeks heard it. Constantine had lacked the foresight-or the troops-to seize control of a regular radio station, and his message went out only on a weak short-wave station that was almost inaudible in Athens...
...disapproval of the policies he had defended as Ambassador. In lectures around the country and in Beyond Vietnam, a newly-published study of the whole U.S.-Asian situation, Reischauer called for a new approach to forthcoming foreign policy. Attacking the long-defended State Department conviction that a Chinese Communist Wave was about to sweep over Asia, Reischauer wrote...