Word: widespread
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...face of threats of "rule by force." He called for a "MacArthur Plan in Asia" to provide at least a billion dollars a year to aid the fight against Communism. He also asked the West to wage "the contest for the minds of men" with a "continuous, widespread, and dramatic program of printed messages from free men to all mankind...
...justified this program by saying that "when officials of governments constantly pour out vitriolic attacks on free peoples...the remedy should be widespread dissemination of information...
...Jackson ever had tuberculosis, as some biographers have thought. What fooled them, she concludes, was his bronchitis, malarial fever, and a lung abscess caused by the bullet. But he had almost everything else: bronchiectasis (inflamed and dilated bronchial tubes), stomach, kidney and eye trouble; in later years, "cholera morbus" (widespread intestinal inflammation) and dropsy. From another duel he had an open wound in his left arm; doctors wanted to amputate, but he refused and trusted in a poultice of slippery elm (still used in lozenges for sore throat). He kept the arm, but later developed osteomyelitis (stubborn infection...
Vasili Kivlenko, who spent part of his five years at Magadan "transit" camp. He recalled: "All those physically weak were doomed; they soon fell sick and never recovered . . . Scurvy was widespread and the tents were particularly foul-smelling from scurvy and frost wounds-sweet from rotting flesh...
Scheele said that there are only 30,481 beds available in the United States for the care of chronically ill patients. Yet within the past few years, he stated, a widespread movement has arisen to awaken interest in chronic illness problems...