From William Shakespeare’s Henry VI, part 1 (III: 1):
GLOUCESTER:
… such is thy audacious wickedness,
Thy lewd, pestiferous and dissentious pranks,
As very infants prattle of thy pride.
pestiferous: 1. Producing or breeding infectious disease.
2. Infected with or contaminated by an epidemic disease.
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From Emily Bazelon’s “Grave Offense” (Legal Affairs: July/August 2002):
In December 1882, hundreds of black Philadelphians gathered at the city morgue. They feared that family members whom they had recently buried were, as a reporter put it, “amongst the staring corpses” that lay inside. Six bodies that had been taken from their graves at Lebanon Cemetery, [...]
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From Bruce Schneier’s “White Powder Anthrax Hoaxes“:
Earlier this month, there was an anthrax scare at the Indonesian embassy in Australia. Someone sent them some white powder in an envelope, which was scary enough. Then it tested positive for bacillus. The building was decontaminated, and the staff was quarantined for twelve hours. By then, tests came [...]
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From “Mental Health Association of Portland“:
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Posted on March 25th, 2006 by Scott Granneman
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From Ben Jones’ Benblog, in February 2003:
Ben on breaking up with a girl: “Archer said last night that getting over a girl is like getting over a cold. You just wake up one day, after the lingering affects are over, and vaguely remember that you were sick.”
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