Word: fever
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...bears, dogs, birds, cats, guinea pigs, monkeys, rabbits, horses and cattle. But they much prefer hogs, rats and men. Once in the muscles, the worms are there for the life of their victim. Most people who get trichinosis never know it. But one in a hundred has chills, fever, muscle pains until his system gets used to the invaders. Six in 10,000 die of damage to the heart after about a month of painful muscle spasms...
Most of the patients described by Dr. Hinsie just never grew up. There was the married man, for example, with three children. He had diarrhea for no physical reason. The psychosomatic reason: his parents had never shown him much attention except once when he had typhoid fever (characterized by diarrhea). His wife, a woman very like his mother, and his children never gave him much notice either. Hence his diarrhea, an unconscious play for attention...
...Webster dips his pen only rarely into politics. For Lincoln's Birthday 1940, Webster drew a forlorn, storm-whipped, benighted, wilderness cabin, a light in its window like the fever of birth. The caption: Ill-Fed-Ill-Clothed-Ill-Housed. During the war he drew a cartoon showing soldiers, under fire in the Pacific, listening to a radio's soapy-voiced report on the progress of a strike. But mostly he is content to give the U.S. newspaper public a much needed, and not too loaded, laugh for its three or five cents' worth...
...fight the Spaniards. And when the Spanish Armada itself came beating up the Channel in 1588, Leicester was made commander of England's military forces. But this was his last service to his Queen. At the height of national rejoicing over the Armada's defeat, Leicester caught fever and died...
...first Negro ever elected to the Hall of Fame.* The onetime slave, pioneer in Negro education and autobiographer (Up From Slavery) received more votes from the 93 Hall of Fame electors than any of the other three newcomers: Georgia-born Poet Sidney Lanier, Revolutionary Pamphleteer Thomas Paine, Yellow Fever Fighter Walter Reed...