Word: cleer
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...last week, Michael had sneezed more than 150,000 times. His parents and doctors decided that the publicity and excitement resulting from setting the British sneezing record (the American record is probably held by a 13-year-old girl, Mary Margaret Cleer, who in 1936 sneezed for 57 days) was not helping Michael's recovery; they shipped him off to the country. His grandmother took him to a cold storage plant, where he sat in a room with the temperature at 18° below zero. When he came out, he was shivering, and sneezing...