Word: outbreaks
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...blind in one eye. This handicap had kept him from going to a university after Eton. It had meant he had to have a special hunting gun designed for sighting with the left eye. And it had kept him from following his famed father's profession until the outbreak of World War II. Then Peter went to North Africa as a commando and contracted an infection in the other eye. From 1942 on, Lucky Beatty had gone from one operation to another trying desperately to retrieve his waning sight. Last month a cornea transplantation in Geneva gave him brief...
...British retreat from Greece in 1941. When the British returned in 1944, so did Weller; like many another correspondent, he developed a deep affection for the country. The Crack in the Column, an admirably objective novel beginning in the days of the Nazi occupation and ending with the outbreak of civil war, is the product of George Weller's fondness for Greece and its hard-pressed people...
...malady spread; there was hardly a corner of Salem without its afflicted maiden. Long weighed down by Indian raids, smallpox and quarrels with London, Salem took to the outbreak of convulsions with something approaching relief, as if a holiday had been declared...
...record total for so early in the year. But even so, there were 13,000 who had escaped the disease for every one who was stricken. Comparing 1949 with former years, health officers in New York City, Detroit and Chicago saw reason to hope that the outbreak was at or near its peak, and would soon taper...
Birds & Banks. There were few areas of the U.S. which did not come under G-man Hoover's watchful eye last week. In Georgia and Alabama, his agents scoured the wool-hat country, quizzing suspects and witnesses in the latest outbreak of the South's hooded raiders. In Chicago, other agents dug into the murder of two bank messengers and plugged away at the Government's fraud case against Automaker Preston Tucker (TIME, June 20). The FBI was also relentlessly at work on a backlog of continuing cases, including the nation's only two unsolved...