venereal diseasein a sentence
- 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)
- They got venereal diseases over here that eat penicillin for breakfast.† (source)
- During World War II, Walt Disney produced scores of military training and propaganda films, including Food Will Win the War, High-Level Precision Bombing, and A Few Quick Facts About Venereal Disease.† (source)
- "You don't have a venereal disease, do you?"† (source)
- I was busy screening the new admissions for venereal diseases.† (source)
- A lover of the weekly "liberty" leaves that sent the Marines flocking into nearby towns and bars for fun, Mike was amused at a necessary ritual that accompanied each liberty: the mandatory testing for venereal disease of each man by a medic, as a chaplain stood piously by.† (source)
- That way the customers would feel more trusting and they wouldn't go around worrying about catching some venereal disease, right?† (source)
- If you hadn't been laid up in the hospital with venereal disease for ten days back there in Africa, you might have finished your twenty-five missions in time to be sent home before Colonel Nevers was killed and Colonel Cathcart came to replace him.† (source)
- "She'll blame herself when she gets a venereal disease …. or when her boyfriend finds out about it.† (source)
- His mother claims that he almost died because of Papá, from a venereal disease that infected him when he was born.† (source)
- The greatest challenge, of course, would be venereal disease.† (source)
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- One very clear day, a major in the Medical Corps, a man with no military bearing whatsoever, arrived at the Bell Tower and spoke to the assembled troops, who thought it was going to be yet another useless lesson about venereal disease-they never had leave-but, instead, the major asked for volunteers.† (source)
- More than 20 different venereal diseases have been identified, and each year in the United States, 13 million people are infected with one of them.
- No venereal diseases here.† (source)
- When he spoke of murder, suicide, venereal disease, amputated limbs, and altered faces, it was with a faint air of persiflage.† (source)
- He asked the medical students innumerable questions about the treatment or cure of inherited blood maladies, venereal diseases, intestinal and inguinal cancers, and the transference of animal glands to men.† (source)
- He heard himself promising to lie, to steal, to forge, to murder, to encourage drug-taking and prostitution, to disseminate venereal diseases, to throw vitriol in a child's face.† (source)
- You are prepared to cheat, to forge, to blackmail, to corrupt the minds of children, to distribute habit-forming drugs, to encourage prostitution, to disseminate venereal diseases — to do anything which is likely to cause demoralization and weaken the power of the Party?† (source)
- Pregnancy, divorce, here and there the odd case of venereal disease.† (source)
- Griffith's paper is on the same tack now: an army rotten with venereal disease: overseas or halfseasover empire.† (source)
- The Army Medical Corps, in the early part of 1918, encountered the same difficulty: most newspapers refused to print its bulletins regarding venereal disease in the army.† (source)
- The vice crusaders, if they have accomplished nothing else, have at least forced the newspapers to use the honest terms, /syphilis/, /prostitute/, /brothel/ and /venereal disease/, albeit somewhat gingerly.† (source)
- The Department of Health of New York City, in April, 1914, announced that its efforts to diminish venereal disease were much handicapped because "in most newspaper offices the words /syphilis/ and /gonorrhea/ are still tabooed, and without the use of these terms it is almost impossible to correctly state the problem."† (source)
- This was before the adoption of /jolly/ and its analogues, /ripping/, /stunning/, /rattling/, etc. [20] In the Appendix to the Final Report of the Royal Commission on Venereal Diseases, London, 1916, p. iv.† (source)
- Another reported that "at a recent conference of the Scripps Northwest League editors" it was decided that "the use of such terms as /gonorrhea/, /syphilis/, and even /venereal diseases/ would not add to the tone of the papers, and that the term /vice diseases/ can be readily substituted.† (source)
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