Word: dogged
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...briefing in the basement Situation Room of the White House. Before breakfast, he was on the phone twice to Defense Secretary Robert McNamara. "He has a mental alarm clock," said Presidential Press Secretary George Christian. "He's working like a dog, keeping tabs on everything...
...first time since national record keeping began, the U.S. has gone through a whole year without a single human death from native rabies, the Public Health Service reports. The 1967 record was marred by two delayed deaths of Americans from dog bites received overseas, one in Guinea, one in Egypt. Still, there is no reason for relaxing and forgetting about rabies. Because wild animals, especially foxes and skunks, are still a reservoir of rabies virus, PHS urges continued vaccination of dogs...
...John C. Norman '50, associate in Surgery, is the head of a project at Boston City Hospital that for the first time has succeeded in curing a dog of hemophilia...
...dusting nearby farms, which had to be tediously decontaminated. The same kind of low-level alpha radiation, officially described as "negligible," was discovered on the icebound bay off northwestern Greenland last week. The U.S. airmen who detected the radioactivity reached the blackened, 500-yd.-long crash site on Eskimo dog sleds, the only means available in the swirling snow and 50-m.p.h. winds of the dark Arctic winter...
...unheroic kid who tags fearfully after a gang of asphalt Iroquois called the Raiders. The book follows Albert and his heroes-a splendidly underprivileged crew of dirty-cut young men-through a wild summer day in the Brownsville streets. The action begins with the formal curbside cremation of a dog's carcass-very satisfying to Albert, an Ironist-and ends with a terrifying game of ringalevio, or tag, Albert's first fist fight, and a brisk one-alarm fire...