Word: dreading
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Aftosa, First of All. Last summer Mexicans were rash enough to import 320 tickproof Brazilian zebu bulls. The bulls brought the dread aftosa, or foot-&-mouth disease. By last week an epidemic had spread through ten states, and excited patrons were refusing perfectly good steak in Mexico City restaurants. Worst of all, the U.S., soundly fearing infection of its own herds, had banned the import of Mexican cattle. This was a deep hurt; 500,000 head shipped over the border each year make a big difference in northern Mexico's prosperity. Last week, while the U.S. Congress shoved through...
When the U.S. slammed the door on Mexican cattle imports last June, Mexicans were hopping mad. Nonsense, they said; those fine Brahma bulls (which they had imported from Brazil) did not have foot & mouth disease. But the bulls did carry the dread disease, and Mexican herds in four central states and the Federal District were infected. Last week, energetic President Aleman set in motion a $40 million, three-month campaign to smash the epidemic. Emergency squads prepared to slaughter and cremate as many as a million head of cattle-one-tenth of Mexico's herds...
...Gentleman: "Oh, I admire them, of course. Only I have such a dread of stepping on them and bringing down the wrath of the fair wearer on my devoted head...
...operating-table hazard that surgeons dread most is persistent bleeding. Last week the Journal of the American Medical Association reported successful experiments with a magical new substance which stops bleeding almost quicker than a surgeon can say hemorrhagiparous (hemorrhage-causing). The substance: gelatin sponge...
...propelled P-80, for instance, was designed as a fighter. But when its guns were first fired at 600 m.p.h., their bullets and gas blasts interrupted the smooth flow of air over the polished skin. The dread sound wave snapped its teeth, and the P-80 disintegrated...