Word: camelback
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...women have gone rapidly from influenza to influenzal pneumonia. Some victims get out of bed after about with the flu only to be hit by a second round. According to Dr. H. Bruce Dull, the NCDC's assistant director, most of the fault for this two-peak "camelback effect" lies in patients' impatience...
...boosted its reporting staff from 65 to 100, stationed one reporter in Viet Nam while others roam, the globe. Arizona staffers have delved into such topics as poverty, the new math, smog, pornography, and corruption in the state tax commission. The paper fought successfully to save nearby scenic Camelback Mountain from private developers...
...combat. Argumentative and fiercely antiauthoritarian, the Somalis are often called the "Irish of Africa," although as Moslems they prefer cold camel's milk to a headier gargle. Well-meaning foreigners who stroll into their quaint, collapsible villages (stick-and skin aghals that can be packed onto camelback in a matter of minutes) often find themselves on the receiving end of accurately thrown stones as the Somalis scream, "Out with the infidel!" Even Mogadishu, Somalia's sunny, somnolent capital (pop. 150,000), has a perennial air of impermanence, particularly in the rainy season, when some of its mud buildings...
...cream-colored draperies parted, the glass door slid open, and there, on crutches, stood Barry Goldwater. Hobbling out to the flagstone patio of his home near Phoenix in the shadow of Camelback Mountain, Goldwater faced scores of Arizona G.O.P. leaders, reporters and television crewmen. Said he: "I want to tell you that I will seek the Republican presidential nomination...
...professor of medicine there. Albright had made him head of the American School by then, but neither marriage nor administrative duties kept him from his project. He brought his bride to Jerusalem, parked her there, and in the summer of 1932 he set out for the East on camelback. He took one Arab companion and a Hebrew Bible...