Word: well
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Usually the peak comes in the 36th week of the calendar year or the 26th week of the "polio year" (which begins after the low point in mid-March). This year, since the disease got off to a flying start in an early hot spell, the peak may well come early. In the South, where polio strikes sooner, new cases reported have already leveled off and should decline from now on; the North may have to wait three or four weeks for a drop...
...dogs, picket-pin gophers, ground squirrels, chipmunks. The Public Health Service called the disease "sylvatic (woodland) plague." It is still bubonic, in the sense that it can cause swelling of the lymph glands of the armpit or groin, but it has become so rare that the word plague could well be dropped...
Ridge Wood and Courier broke well from the starting tapes but immediately slowed to a walk as both jockeys tried to follow their instructions. A starter's assistant cracked his whip but could not even raise a canter. It took Ridge Wood and Courier 1 min. 24 sec. to stroll the first furlong (in that time a really good horse, doing his best, can run seven furlongs...
Said one listener: "I bought a straight pari-mutuel ticket: Heifetz to win, Piatigorsky to place and Rubinstein to show. I damn well lost. In music like this there could not be a winner or a loser." Said another: "You didn't know whether to shout or bow your head...
...village there is no girl virtuous enough to be Queen, eventually winds up on a roaring toot. To this, Composer Britten hitched a witty, somewhat Peter and the Wolf-ish score, in which each instrument seemed to portray (or mock) a character on stage. There were other Britten trademarks: well-fitting songs and exciting ensembles. Even so, some found Albert's humor, at least in Tanglewood's production, so mordant that it often verged on the grim, and Britten's somewhat patchy score so consciously clever that at times it was irritating. The applause was warm...