Word: malariae
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Disease-dysentery, malaria, beriberi-Was always a threat. Guards insisted that prisoners put down their mosquito netting at night. Occasionally P.O.W.s received injections-with painfully dull needles-of quinine and vitamins. Three weeks before their release, rations were doubled and the P.O.W.s were given straw mats for bedding; Utecht sensed that his imprisonment would soon end. As a souvenir, he smuggled out a leg chain that was used to shackle prisoners...
...been collected about captivity in the South. As the prisoners came back from that oblivion, a few fascinating details emerged. No prisoner of the Viet Cong had received a single letter since April 1970. Kept on the move, the men to some extent became inured to such illnesses as malaria and dysentery...
...desire to wish the war hadn't happened. But it did. If only it hadn't been for the war, hundreds of thousands of dead people would still be alive, countless villages would be undestroyed, millions of acres of land would be growing rice instead of breeding mosquitos and malaria in bomb craters. Lyndon Johnson actually did bring four years of destruction to an actual country called Vietnam (as well as killing thousands of American Gl's). Let us mourn Johnson's death no more than we mourn those who suffered and died because of his life...
Widely regarded as an unreconstructed hypochondriac, he had headaches, cramps, insomnia and a nervous stomach from worrying-largely about his headaches, cramps, insomnia and stomach. Though some of his ailments, such as slipped discs, bone chips, blood clots, pulled muscles and malaria, were undoubtedly for real, Pirate fans came to expect and even revel in the complaints of "Mr. Aches and Pains." It was almost axiomatic that the worse Roberto said he felt, the better he played. "If Clemente can walk," the New York Mets' Tommy Agee said before the 1972 season, "he can hit." Hit he did, registering...
Another glamour event of track and field is the 1,500-meter run. If recent form prevails, the final should bring about a rematch between the duelists of Mexico, Gold Medalist Kipchoge Keino of Kenya and runner-up Jim Ryun of the U.S. Keino, despite an attack of malaria, recently ran the fastest 1,500 of the year, 3:36.8. Ryun, who has performed erratically for more than 18 months, seems to be reaching his peak once again. Even so, it may not be a two-man race. Kenya has another prospect in Mike Boit, who started running the distance...