Famed polio fighter

Usage examples of sabin.

Sabin glanced back and tipped her a laconic salute from a now breadless hand.

Sabin meant she was not going to have a general debarcation, no celebration, no letting their dangerous cargo loose wholesale.

Sabin made adjustments as Radd provided specs and monitored the readouts.

Sabin seethed, wanting to be free of the shackles, but knowing Radd was right.

Then his perusal moved to Lionia, Radd, and Sabin, who stood outside the cockpit.

When Sereno and Lucio had ended the last revolution and thus brought peace, men like Sabin had been left rudderless.

He poured lemon sherbet for himself and Sabin and lifted the fluted cup to his lips.

Sabin continued to underwind the clocks, carefully allowing their mechanisms to slow, their springs to expand, their hands to shift less sharply, so that time itself geared down to a lazier pace.

Sabin clenched his fists but he succeeded in keeping his head down until the Atabeg had passed.

A woman wearing a white headcloth was selling piles of the laciest pancakes Sabin had ever seen with some kind of honey syrup drizzled over them.

With no time to waste, she had to use one of the lethean patches on Sabin at the first opportunity.

Sabin had been playing a game of merels with one of the older squires but, as Annais arrived, the youth rose, stretched, nodded to Sabin and went off to attend to his duties.

Sabin neither came to dine nor arrived to play dice or merels in the hall after the meal had finished.

Karen, Nim learned, had been stricken with poliomyelitis just one year before the Salk vaccine went into widespread use in North America and, with Sabin vaccine a few years later, wiped polio from the landscape.

Sneering at McCarthy today because the only people who call themselves Communists are harmless cranks is like sneering at the Sabin vaccine since, really, almost no one gets polio anymore.