Word: cholera
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...children. This offsets some of the harm the Communists have done themselves by overthrowing the cult of respect to our ancestors which we Tonkinese have inherited from Confucius. Sometimes Ho recites verse. Sometimes he cracks a joke. I remember once-in Annamite we use the same word for 'cholera' as for 'left'-we had an outbreak of cholera, and he told the minister of health: 'You had better get this under control or people will think we are favoring the left...
...wenching because she is awed by his education and believes in his essential goodness; she closes her eyes to the fact that little Rosa Tench is Portius' child, and she expands with pride when Portius makes a fine speech. Portius is a stout character himself. He survives the cholera, though his only medicine is red pepper and asafetida pills, because he is too "preserved in alcohol to die." When he becomes a judge, agnostic and prankster that he is, he secretly replaces the court Bible with Arabian Nights, by which everyone swears as devoutly as before...
...Instead, he would like it to set a good example. (In Greece it did an outstanding job of malaria control, and the example inspired scores of Greeks to take training in malariology.) Every day WHO headquarters in Geneva sends out word of outbreaks of the five "treaty diseases" (plague, cholera, typhus, smallpox and yellow fever) against which quarantine officials must be alert. This work is more than ever important now that air travelers can spread a plague halfway around the world in half...
...about 7,000,000 people. Biggest addition: the Hindu refugees from Eastern Pakistan, who last week were still crowding in. Five thousand Hindus were camped in Calcutta's Sealdah railroad station, ragged, stupefied and sick. In spite of efforts of relief workers there were 70 new cases of cholera, typhoid and dysentery every day. A volunteer made the rounds taking down depositions from refugees. One emaciated little man dictated haltingly: "My name is Harun Donath Pal. I lived in the village of Subhodpur. My house has been burned and my two sisters and my aunt are lost. My property...