Word: blisteringly
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...fellows to try living on parched corn alone, as the Indians did while on the trail, and another passed out a homemade, trail-ration bar made of dates, raisins and coconut. At mile 16, 20 of the weary dropped out (among them Editorial Writer Pusey, who had grown a blister) and took cars to a hunting lodge named the Cardinal Club. But the Justice and 16 hardy souls made the last six miles on foot. They covered 22 long miles before they sat down before the club's roaring fireplace for a dinner of roast ham and baked beans...
...wild beasts. Before dawn every morning, as we walked through the narrow-jungle paths with the native party chanting the names of Hindu deities and the drums rolling, there would be occasional noises in the underbrush. But some how the only thing that worried me was a blister on my heel. I guess I'm getting blase - or just...
...discharge as a Marine captain, and signed up (for an estimated $50,000) for the rest of the season, Ted Williams stepped up for his first batting practice in over a year, sprayed Boston's Fenway Park with line drives, quit 15 minutes later with a quarter-sized blister on his right palm...
Hitch that blister, disk and plow...
...diseases most likely to be confused with polio are caused by the viruses of encephalitis (at least three forms) and mumps. Even the lowly, and usually harmless, virus of the fever blister can, like these, occasionally cause a severe inflammation of the central nervous system with widespread paralysis, or even death. At the Children's Medical Center in Boston, Dr. Enders and his colleagues are now busy screening cultures from 150 of this year's "polio" patients. Their results should be a big addition to medicine's slim store of knowledge about pseudopolio...