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  • "One epidemic in the collection," he used to say, "and we'll end up in a road crew breaking up stones."†   (source)
  • He was acting like we were headed for a lark instead of fleeing an epidemic.†   (source)
  • Many had died in a cholera epidemic and they'd been buried in haste in wooden boxes and the boxes were rotting and falling open.†   (source)
  • My father was born when Edith was eighteen, and after him two girls, Martha and Louise, who died in the flu epidemic of 1917.†   (source)
  • Her blondness turned to dry straw; her cheeks and nose turned a raw salmon color, her eyes watered—she caught every flu, every common cold there was; no epidemic missed her.†   (source)
  • For instance, in Jullundhar, instead of moving in with his uncle's family, as the uncle had expected us to—Prakash had lost his parents in a cholera epidemic when he was ten—he rented a two-room apartment in a three-story building across the street from the technical college.†   (source)
  • The kind that quickens during a hunt, not an epidemic.†   (source)
  • "Yellow Peril" Hadley swept through the school with the speed of a flu epidemic, and it must be said to his credit that Brinker took it well enough except when, in its inevitable abbreviation, people sometimes called him "Yellow" instead of "Peril."†   (source)
  • Look at this one: 'CURTAIN BEST MAN TO HANDLE BAFFLING AMNESIA EPIDEMIC.†   (source)
  • Millions of our children, our most precious natural resource, are being victimized by a tragic and unconscionable epidemic of child abuse and neglect.†   (source)
  • It seemed purely chance at first, an epidemic of good health that the less intelligent of the trainees were tempted to put down to their own improving techniques.†   (source)
  • EXTRA CALORIES Behind our epidemic of obesity lies this simple fact: When food is abundant and cheap, people will eat more of it.†   (source)
  • After all they were not battling an epidemic.†   (source)
  • That particular breed began as a joke but had multiplied into an epidemic.†   (source)
  • Or how many epidemics are raging here.†   (source)
  • Heart attacks were an epidemic in the United States.†   (source)
  • Everyone wants to prevent an epidemic.†   (source)
  • Carthage had a bigger drug epidemic than I ever knew: The cops had been here just yesterday, and already the druggies had resettled, like determined flies.†   (source)
  • Big influenza epidemic.†   (source)
  • The epidemic followed a pattern in the barrio.†   (source)
  • An epidemic broke out in the ghetto.†   (source)
  • In all the chaos of the epidemic, no one would ever realize I was gone.†   (source)
  • Tuberculosis and double pneumonia were raging in those days, and Mameh had a great fear one of her kids would catch that, because in Europe one of her brothers died in a flu epidemic.†   (source)
  • Now AIDS, on the other hand, has been an epidemic that does occupy the writers of its time.†   (source)
  • What she found was that if Santa Monica had a growing problem, Skid Row had a full-blown epidemic.†   (source)
  • Margaret eventually moved to Pasadena, California, where she lived through time of war and epidemic and crushing financial depression, and then war again.†   (source)
  • "Two of her children died in the epidemic," I said.†   (source)
  • By the end of 1951 the world was in the midst of the biggest polio epidemic in history.†   (source)
  • Renwick Smallpox Hospital was designed by architect Jacob Renwick and intended to quarantine the poorest victims of Manhattan's uncontrollable smallpox epidemic.†   (source)
  • That's what had happend to Father: they'd had an epidemic of cholera on the prison ship he'd been on.†   (source)
  • The virus was suppressed by the Catholic Church, but we're in the middle of a big epidemic that started in Kansas in 1900 and has been gathering momentum ever since.†   (source)
  • A wave of germs was unleashed, causing all sorts of epidemics across the country.†   (source)
  • Teen pregnancy is such an epidemic in our area that I felt good about sharing my story with people outside of my high school.†   (source)
  • Stanton weeded out unfit and incompetent officers; battled dishonest government contractors who sold the army low-quality uniforms, rotting equipment, and defective weapons; and endured an epidemic of officers who would not fight.†   (source)
  • She was more explicit: the young doctor she had heard so much about in connection with the cholera epidemic seemed a pedant incapable of loving anyone but himself.†   (source)
  • We have a contagious epidemic.†   (source)
  • The diptheria epidemic that had destroyed so many things in Las Pasturas had claimed her.†   (source)
  • Luckily, I know the remedies to treat such problems so that LuLing does not return home bringing with her an epidemic...†   (source)
  • "Worst thing in the world to get rid of," she said, and told us about the epidemic at the girls' school in Kinvara when she was a boarder.†   (source)
  • Floods, tornados, epidemics of strange new diseases.†   (source)
  • Thanksgiving, on the other hand, was good for the truth about the Pilgrims' lives, which wasn't only about friendly dinners with Native Americans, but instead included the Salem witch hunts, smallpox epidemics, and a nasty tendency toward incest.†   (source)
  • There, headlining Local News: MAJOR DRUG BUST with a picture of Roberto in a sporty pair of cuffs, followed by a daunting expos La Eme and the crank epidemic.†   (source)
  • Without additional funding for public health measures, outbreaks and epidemics of new diseases were virtually inevitable.†   (source)
  • She became gravely ill with l'epidemie, or "the epidemic," as they had begun to call it.†   (source)
  • That way, nearly all adults would know their AIDS status, which is crucial, because it's impossible to contain an epidemic when people do not know whether or not they have been infected.†   (source)
  • He'd have loved to hear about the 1940s typhus epidemic during which some brilliant Italian official decided to douse the whole city with DDT, getting rid of lice and the typhus.†   (source)
  • The camp looked as though it had been through an epidemic: empty and dead.†   (source)
  • Once we get an epidemic of lice, or crabs, or scabies, it is near impossible to get rid of 'em.†   (source)
  • He perished in the great silence epidemic of 1712.†   (source)
  • With epidemic dysentery sweeping through the outlying towns, Dr. Thacher worried over the numbers of ill soldiers in the camps and crowding the hospital.†   (source)
  • After about ten minutes, during which they talked about the flu epidemic raging at the time, the man said, We've given your case a lot of thought.†   (source)
  • Some adults were excited too, but to be certain the whole young population had come down with graduation epidemic.†   (source)
  • Epidemics of the illness usually occur after social upheavals, in the ensuing overcrowding, poor hygiene, and malnutrition.†   (source)
  • It seemed unfair to me that everyone else was fighting the epidemic and I could do nothing.†   (source)
  • If there was no rain at all, there were freakish, inexplicable phenomena like the epidemic of diarrhea or the bomb line that moved.†   (source)
  • She stayed awake keeping watch nightly in an epidemic and chanted during air raids.†   (source)
  • My misery is reaching epidemic proportions.†   (source)
  • I considered taking the children, traveling with him, but used the excuse of an epidemic influenza in that part of the world to remain at home (in protest of his refusal to allow Sukeena to attend me on the voyage).†   (source)
  • An epidemic that could poison this very airport in a matter of minutes, incubate over a number of weeks, and then kill within twenty-four hours of its first symptom.†   (source)
  • Diseases were rare on the ship; there hadn't been any epidemics since the last outbreak they'd quarantined on Walden.†   (source)
  • Leavitt had seen enough plagues and epidemics in his day to know the importance of quick action.†   (source)
  • The year of my birth marked the end of the Great War; the outbreak of an influenza epidemic that killed millions throughout the world; and the visit of a delegation of the African National Congress to the Versailles peace conference to voice the grievances of the African people of South Africa.†   (source)
  • It was the poorest part of town, and disease and epidemics ivere commonplace and the hospital was always teeming with people in need of the most basic medical attention.†   (source)
  • Apparently we were clean; was no epidemic†   (source)
  • There is an epidemic running out of control in America, and the statistics are frightening.†   (source)
  • There's never any warning given or any special reason, it's more like an epidemic, it hits the men suddenly and they go.†   (source)
  • So far in this century, three epidemics of it have been let loose in the world.†   (source)
  • And I had not seen Uncle Lu since the epidemic began, although he left his empty bowl outside his room each morning and evening for me to refill.†   (source)
  • The flu epidemic of 1921.†   (source)
  • When I was a little girl, we went through hurricanes off the Gulf of Mexico and Delta floods and encephalitis epidemics and poor times when we didn't know where tomorrow's food was comin' from, but we rode it out and still sung loud in the choir every Sunday.†   (source)
  • It was Napoleon's complex, Hitler's fever, little man's disease, and there was an epidemic that year, some of the guys standing eight inches taller than they had the year before, shadows of beards and deep voices, and others like Todd Bridger and his sidekick from Greensboro, little and hairless and taking it out on the world.†   (source)
  • The term "epidemic" sprang to mind and she dismissed it.†   (source)
  • One such sick and dying wolf appeared in Churchill during the 1946 epidemic.†   (source)
  • In the Spanish influenza epidemic, when Edward had high fever in one room and I high fever in another, I shot him off a jingle about the little boy down our street who was in bed with the same thing: "There was a little boy and his name was Lindsey.†   (source)
  • "Epidemic of it," Clumly said.†   (source)
  • Like an epidemic spreading swiftly from land to land, the metamorphosis infected the entire human race.†   (source)
  • I can't stop an epidemic if it comes.†   (source)
  • He had brought the epidemic of desertions in this whole region under control and had successfully reorganized the recruiting bodies.†   (source)
  • My daddy died in nineteen ought nineteen of the epidemic flu and I never had a thing to do with it.†   (source)
  • BERENGER: Alcohol is good for epidemics.†   (source)
  • They're not going to permit another great epidemic of it.   (source)
    epidemic = a widespread outbreak of an infectious disease
  • It does not have the p0000etry of a good epidemic.†   (source)
  • The headline of theSeattle Times read: "Murder Epidemic Continues — Police Have No New Leads."†   (source)
  • This idea of crime as an epidemic, it must be said, is a little strange.†   (source)
  • Most of the work sites offered nothing to sabotage, but stealing was epidemic.†   (source)
  • For there were no more wars or epidemics, but the swollen bodies still floated by.†   (source)
  • Epidemics sometimes devastated the village, but they always ended, not far from where they began.†   (source)
  • An epidemic of prescription drug addiction has taken root.†   (source)
  • You can tell it was built for a larger gathering, and perhaps it held one before the pox epidemic.†   (source)
  • When the influenza epidemic hit, he was working nights in a hospital in Chicago.†   (source)
  • What if an epidemic is raging out in that snowstorm?†   (source)
  • The installations had had to be incinerated before the epidemic could be brought under control.†   (source)
  • At the beginning of the epidemic there were about eighty people practicing medicine in Philadelphia.†   (source)
  • It takes only the smallest of changes to shatter an epidemic's equilibrium.†   (source)
  • She shed tears over her friends dying in the 1918 flu epidemic.†   (source)
  • ONE DAY THERE WILL COME AN EPIDEMIC—I'LL BET ON SOME HUMDINGER OF A SEXUAL DISEASE.†   (source)
  • But it's only in the rare instance that such an exchange ignites a word-of-mouth epidemic.†   (source)
  • In the early days of the epidemic many wealthy people and business owners fled.†   (source)
  • They lived through that epidemic, which took, what?†   (source)
  • After the epidemic, society members were attacked in a pamphlet written by publisher Mathew Carey.†   (source)
  • But obviously, for that epidemic to take off, the restaurant itself had to remain a good restaurant.†   (source)
  • Eliza promised we would find my mother or learn her fate as soon as the epidemic was over.†   (source)
  • There is more than one way to tip an epidemic, in other words.†   (source)
  • Paul Revere started a word-of-mouth epidemic with the phrase "The British are coming."†   (source)
  • At the beginning of the epidemic most people in Philadelphia were calm.†   (source)
  • We do not have any records that tell us whether or not people starved during the epidemic.†   (source)
  • Ya-Ya's roots in book-group culture tipped it into a larger word-of-mouth epidemic.†   (source)
  • Blanchard's plans for a second flight in the city were ruined by the yellow fever epidemic.†   (source)
  • In the late 1960s, a television producer named Joan Gantz Cooney set out to start an epidemic.†   (source)
  • Why did Ya-Ya Sisterhood turn into an epidemic?†   (source)
  • The doctors of Philadelphia battled one another as well as the epidemic.†   (source)
  • And during the epidemic it was French doctors who had the most effective treatments.†   (source)
  • "Epidemic Suicide Among Micronesian Adolescents," p. 664.†   (source)
  • In the period when the New York epidemic tipped down, the city's economy hadn't improved.†   (source)
  • At the height of the epidemic he was seeing 120 patients a day.†   (source)
  • Even a few hundred isn't enough to call it an epidemic," he said.†   (source)
  • In this epidemic, as well, there are also Tipping People, Salesmen, permission-givers.†   (source)
  • In a social epidemic, Mavens are data banks.†   (source)
  • APPENDIX DID THE EPIDEMIC REALLY HAPPEN?†   (source)
  • Dr. Rush has seen two or three epidemics in his life.†   (source)
  • Something else clearly played a role in reversing New York's crime epidemic.†   (source)
  • But then, Suddenly and without warning, the epidemic tipped.†   (source)
  • The teen smoking epidemic does not simply illustrate the Law of the Few.†   (source)
  • Paul Revere's ride is perhaps the most famous historical example of a word-of-mouth epidemic.†   (source)
  • But they also sometimes tip when something happens to transform the epidemic agent itself.†   (source)
  • The answer lies in the third of the principles of epidemic transmission, the Power of Context.†   (source)
  • In the midst of the Micronesian epidemic, that was hardly unusual.†   (source)
  • Epidemics are, at their root, about this very process of transformation.†   (source)
  • Social epidemics work in exactly the same way.†   (source)
  • But they both have the power to spark word-of-mouth epidemics.†   (source)
  • What makes people like Mark Alpert so important in starting epidemics?†   (source)
  • In epidemics, the messenger matters: messengers are what make something spread.†   (source)
  • Starting epidemics requires concentrating resources on a few key areas.†   (source)
  • Those epidemics involved relatively straightforward and simple things — a product and a message.†   (source)
  • Epidemics tip because of the extraordinary efforts of a few select carriers.†   (source)
  • These are the kinds of people who make epidemics of disease tip.†   (source)
  • CHAPTER ONE: THE THREE RULES OF EPIDEMICS Page 15.†   (source)
  • Mavens have the knowledge and the social skills to start word-of-mouth epidemics.†   (source)
  • And what can we do to deliberately start and control positive epidemics of our own?†   (source)
  • To appreciate the power of epidemics, we have to abandon this expectation about proportionality.†   (source)
  • But there's no question that his arguments apply to other kind-, of social epidemics as well.†   (source)
  • Why is it that some ideas or behaviors or products start epidemics and others don't?†   (source)
  • Word-of-mouth epidemics are the work of Connectors.†   (source)
  • It was thousands of different epidemics, all focused on the groups that had grown up around Ya-Ya.†   (source)
  • Not all word-of-mouth epidemics are this sensational, of course.†   (source)
  • Further, Philadelphia was notorious for its deadly epidemics of smallpox.†   (source)
  • The prison epidemic threatened their own personnel, indeed their own empire.†   (source)
  • I told of the time there was a cholera epidemic and of the illnesses that came from bad water.†   (source)
  • The epidemic ended with the first hard frost in November.†   (source)
  • I thought something not befitting Lady Lu: Why couldn't the spirits have taken her in the epidemic?†   (source)
  • Not exactly an epidemic of staggering proportions.†   (source)
  • In the oppressive summer heat in New York and on Long Island, camp fever had become epidemic.†   (source)
  • This is, in fact, the first true epidemic we have had to respond to in several hundred years.†   (source)
  • The cost of America's obesity epidemic extends far beyond emotional pain and low self-esteem.†   (source)
  • Nor was Braintree spared the violent epidemic.†   (source)
  • The World Bank was planning a loan to try to stanch the tb epidemic in Russia.†   (source)
  • "It's going to take resources to stop this epidemic," he said.†   (source)
  • He was working now for the Soros Foundation on the tb epidemic in Russia.†   (source)
  • About a dozen non-Russian organizations were trying to figure out how to control the epidemic.†   (source)
  • If we leave the dead unburied we're inviting an epidemic.†   (source)
  • DUDARD: There's still the epidemic theory.†   (source)
  • It couldn't be sort of an epidemic, could it?†   (source)
  • When the epidemic's over, then I shall stop drinking.†   (source)
  • It's not the first time there's been an epidemic.†   (source)
  • Need I remind you that this was the age of the R-strain syphilis and also of the infamous AIDS epidemic, which, once they spread to the population at large, eliminated many young sexually active people from the reproductive pool?†   (source)
  • At first Jimmy thought it was routine, another minor epidemic or splotch of bioterrorism, just another news item.†   (source)
  • Awhile back, there was some sort of pox epidemic that killed a bunch of them and left a lot more infertile.†   (source)
  • When the body count reached epidemic proportions — in fact, your histories blame a disease for the population slump — the Volturi finally stepped in.†   (source)
  • Although PCP preceded the crack epidemic, it was enough to make blabbering idiots of once-vigorous boys and girls.†   (source)
  • At the beginning of the AIDS epidemic, a group of researchers—including a molecular biologist named Richard Axel, who would go on to win a Nobel Prize—infected HeLa cells with HIV.†   (source)
  • My granddaughter was in a state, just like Clara in the days of the typhus epidemic, when she took everybody else's suffering onto her own back.†   (source)
  • Due to the horrific hygiene conditions at the camp, a typhus epidemic broke out in the winter of 1944-45 that resulted in the deaths of thousands of detainees, including Margot and, a few days later, Anne.†   (source)
  • In that same period of the late nineteenth century, syphilis and gonorrhea reached near-epidemic proportions, yet except for Henrik Ibsen and some of the later naturalists, venereal diseases were hardly on the literary map.†   (source)
  • She cared for the family's health during this dangerous epidemic as best she could, and she would not let us through the hall and on into the flat until she had conscientiously removed the lice from our hats, coats and suits with the pincers and drowned them in spirits.†   (source)
  • An amnesia epidemic?†   (source)
  • Her three-legged table and her capacity to read tea leaves were useless in protecting the tenants from epidemics and disorder, the earth from drought and snails, the cows from foot-and-mouth disease, the chickens from distemper, the clothing from moths, her children from abandonment, and her husband from death and his own rage.†   (source)
  • Pundits in suits appeared on the screen; medical experts, graphs showing infection rates, maps tracing the extent of the epidemic.†   (source)
  • They would be even more powerful if that pox epidemic hadn't flattened their birthrate and made them so desperate for a new gene pool and breeders.†   (source)
  • Our mother, the recent agoraphobe, who kept us pumpkin-shelled indoors through all the months of rain and epidemic and Independence, has now turned on her protector: she eyes our house suspiciously, accuses it of being "cobwebby" and "strangling us with the heat."†   (source)
  • The epidemic of cholera morbus, whose first victims were struck down in the standing water of the market, had, in eleven weeks, been responsible for the greatest death toll in our history.†   (source)
  • They also carried a rare virus called HTLV, a distant cousin of the HIV virus, which researchers hoped to use to create a vaccine that could stop the AIDS epidemic.†   (source)
  • At the time, with the Chinese and American aircraft carriers squaring off in the South China Sea, it was impossible to understand the power outages in Connecticut, bird flu epidemic, and logistics attack as anything but a coordinated attack by the Chinese in retaliation to US forces threatening their "protectorate."†   (source)
  • In examining how a person confronts the wholesale devastation wrought by disease, Camus can set his existentialist philosophy into motion in a fictional setting: the isolation and uncertainty caused by the disease, the absurdly random nature of infection, the despair felt by a doctor in the face of an unstoppable epidemic, the desire to act even while recognizing the pointlessness of action.†   (source)
  • Eleven more cases were reported in the next three months, and in the fifth there was an alarming outbreak, but by the end of the year it was believed that the danger of an epidemic had been averted.†   (source)
  • NO EPIDEMICS, I wrote.†   (source)
  • The hastily assembled epidemic managers called the shots — field clinics, isolation tents; whole towns, then whole cities quarantined.†   (source)
  • At eighty-one years of age he preserved the same easygoing manner and festive spirit that he had on his return from Paris soon after the great cholera epidemic, and except for the metallic color, his carefully combed hair with the center part was the same as it had been in his youth.†   (source)
  • The only element that contradicted the raw truth of the story was that in the painting he was wearing not the collarless shirt and the suspenders with green stripes, but rather a bowler hat and black frock coat copied from a rotogravure made during the years of the cholera epidemic.†   (source)
  • After the first two weeks of the cholera epidemic, the cemetery was overflowing and there was no room left in the churches despite the fact that they had dispatched the decayed remains of many nameless civic heroes to the communal ossuary.†   (source)
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