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An outbreak a caprice a whim...
Ebola virus
an exceptionally virulent hemorrhaic virus with a high mortality rate first recognized in an outbreak on the Ebola river in africa...
Eacutemeute
A seditious tumult an outbreak...
Ghost dance
A religious dance of the North American Indians participated in by both sexes and looked upon as a rite of invocation the purpose of which is through trance and vision to bring the dancer into communion with the unseen world and the spirits of departed friends The dance is the chief rite of the Ghost dance or Messiah religion which originated about 1890 in the doctrines of the Piute Wovoka the Indian Messiah who taught that the time was drawing near when the whole Indian race the dead with the living should be reunited to live a life of millennial happiness upon a regenerated earth The religion inculcates peace righteousness and work and holds that in good time without warlike intervention the oppressive white rule will be removed by the higher powers The religion spread through a majority of the western tribes of the United States only in the case of the Sioux owing to local causes leading to an outbreak...
Influenza
An epidemic viral infectious disease characterized by acute nasal catarrh or by inflammation of the throat or the bronchi and usually accompanied by fever and general weakness also called grippe It is caused by several forms of RNA virus which mutate readily and thereby render vaccines prepared against older forms ineffective often requiring a new form of vaccine for each new outbreak...
outbreak
A bursting forth eruption insurrection mutiny revolt...
Outbreaking
The act of breaking out...
Ruction
An uproar a quarrel a noisy outbreak...
Arms control
Arms control, means a policy of minimizing instabilities in the military field by lessening the possibility of the outbreak of war while reducing in number of country's weapons of mass destruction, Black Law Dictionary 7th Edn., p. 103....
Bank holidays
Bank holidays. Easter Monday, Whit Monday, the first Monday in August, and the 26th December if a weekday, or if it is a Sunday the 27th, or any day appointed by Order in Council in place of one of these, and any day appointed by Royal Proclama-tion in addition to these, is a statutory bank holiday in England, 34 & 35 Vict. c.17; 38 & 39 Vict. c. 13; 45 & 46 Vict. c. 61. R. S. C. 1883, Ord. LXIV. In 1914 on the occasion of the outbreak of the war with Germany the August Bank Holiday was extended by Proclamation to four days. See HOLIDAY....
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