Word: blistering
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...baby who was born with herpetic ulcers on his skin and kept getting them for months; he is now handicapped by cerebral palsy. By diligent virus detective work, the doctors concluded that the mother had picked up the infection from her husband, who had a herpes simplex fever blister on his lip when he kissed her ten days before the baby was born. The virus must have reached the baby through the mother's bloodstream and the placenta...
Blight her brow with blotch and blister...
...pinhead in this case is a young aristoclot called Freddy Widgeon. Poor Freddy. He has been enrolled by his wealthy, tyrannical uncle, Lord Blicester (pronounced Blister), as "a wage slave in a solicitor's firm, as near to being an office boy as makes no matter." Freddy is limply determined to escape to Kenya and become a "coffee king," but he has to earn a few beans before he can plant any, and this involves 246 pages of wild but cheerful complications. Among them: a girl named Sally, whom Freddy considers "the biggest thing since sliced bread," a lady...