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Crossword-Solution: POLIO 5 letters, 101 clues 🏆 scrabble score: 7

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"March of Dimes" conquest. 1 answer
Affliction suffered by FDR 1 answer
Ailment suffered by F.D.R. 1 answer
Albert Sabin developed a vaccine for it 1 answer
Arthur C. Clarke's affliction 1 answer
Bygone epidemic cause 1 answer
Cause of Jean Chretien's facial disfigurement 1 answer
Challenge for F.D.R. 1 answer
Concern of Salk and Sabin 1 answer
Concern of the March of Dimes. 1 answer
Conquest of Salk and Sabin. 1 answer
Conquest of the 1950's. 1 answer
Crippling disease 1 answer
Disease almost eliminated 1 answer
Disease largely eradicated by Salk's vaccine 1 answer
Disease studied by Salk and Sabin 1 answer
Dr. Sabin studied it 1 answer
Dr. Sabin's field 1 answer
Dr. Sabin's target 1 answer
Dr. Salk's adversary. 1 answer
Dr. Salk's conquest 1 answer
Dr. Salk's target 1 answer
Dr. Salk's target: 1952–55 1 answer
Elizabeth Kenny's foe. 1 answer
F.D.R. affliction 1 answer
F.D.R.'s affliction 1 answer
FDR tried to hide its effects 1 answer
FDR's inhibitor 1 answer
Focus of University of Pittsburgh research, 1948-1955 1 answer
Former scourge 1 answer
Health problem now largely eradicated in the U.S. 1 answer
It struck F.D.R. in 1921 1 answer
It was treated in an iron lung 1 answer
Jonas E. Salk's target 1 answer
Jonas Salk's concern 1 answer
Jonas Salk's conquest 1 answer
Jonas Salk's study 1 answer
Jonas Salk's target 1 answer
Largely eradicated disease 1 answer
March of Dimes concern. 1 answer
March of Dimes target. 1 answer
March of Dimes' original crusade 1 answer
Old disease 1 answer
Oral vaccine target 1 answer
Original focus of the March of Dimes 1 answer
Paralysing disease 1 answer
Public health concern. 1 answer
Reason to vaccinate 1 answer
Roosevelt's affliction 1 answer
Sabin developed a vaccine for it 1 answer
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Hint 1 meaning
One who, or that which, eats.
Hint 2 anagram
ERETA
Hint 3 another clue
greedy person
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Unscramble POLIO5-letter words that start with P5-letter words that end in O5-letter words containing OL5-letter words containing IO5-letter words with P and O

Sentences with POLIO (5)

What did it matter to him if we were pulling out our watches and chattering in well-contented undertone about _vino nobile_, _biftek_, and possibly a _polio arrosto_, or a dish of _tord_? At 88 the end of the half-hour, as he was well aware, self-congratulations and visions of a hearty supper would turn to discontented wailings, and the querulous complaining of defrauded appetites.
Sketches and Studies in Italy and Greece John Symonds 2006
How about it, Doc? Sort of like a cold, stiff sore neck." It was clearly polio--one of the diseases that could attack Mars-normal flesh.
Badge of Infamy Lester del Rey 2006
The kid--his name was Joey and he was ten--was a polio case who hadn't walked for over a year, and his mother was a waitress at a roadside joint named the Sea Shell Diner.
To Remember Charlie By Roger Dee 2010
This is particularly likely to be manifest in children who have an unfortunate nervous heredity or in those whose {564} nervous systems have been impaired by preceding infections disease as anterior polio-myelitis, syphilis or one of the forms of meningitis.
Psychotherapy James J. Walsh 2011
She had polio, which left her slightly lame, very slightly--as you can see, Miss Blake is not disfigured, and not at all unattractive.
The Trial of Callista Blake Edgar Pangborn 2012

Quotes with POLIO (3)

Fear is the polio of the soul which prevents our walking by faith.
Clarence Jordan The Substance of Faith: And Other Cotton Patch Sermons
Reply when questioned on the safety of the polio vaccine he developed: It is safe, and you can't get safer than safe.
Jonas Salk
War means endless waiting, endless boredom. There is no electricity, so no television. You can't read. You can't see friends. You grow depressed but there is no treatment for it and it makes no sense to complain — everyone is as badly off as you. It's hard to fall in love, or rather, hard to stay in love. If you are a teenager, you seem halted in time. If you are critically ill — with cancer, for instance — there is no chemotherapy for you. If you can't leave the country for …
Janine Di Giovanni The Morning They Came for Us: Dispatches from Syria
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Appears in: Boston Globe, Crossroads, CrosSynergy, LAT, Newsday, New Yorker, NY Sun, NYT, Slate, Universal, USA TODAY, WP, WSJ.

Used 153 times in crossword archives (1951–2025).