Word: drifting
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...vaccines, the C.D.C. now believes that the viruses' antigenic properties "drift," or change slightly, and that the current wild strains have drifted away from those used in the vaccine now available. If the change is not too great, the vaccine should still offer substantial protection. Next year, the vaccine makers will hurry to catch the drift...
Castro could not say as much for rice, the staple of every Cuban meal. Mournfully, he disclosed that Red China had broken a $250 million barter agreement-mostly Chinese rice for Cuban sugar. China blamed economic pressures at home, but there was little doubt that Castro's drift toward Moscow was the real reason. "I thought this was a long-term proposition," Castro said, "but the other party did not understand it that way." As a result, the Cuban rice ration was lopped in half-from 6 lbs. a month per person to 3 lbs. Oh, well, shrugged Fidel...
...patient. Moreover, he has maintained a taxing schedule of appointments with Administration officials, whom he has summoned to Texas to discuss topics ranging from aluminum prices to last month's blackout in the Northeast. Nonetheless, Johnson's absence from the capital has unquestionably occasioned an atmosphere of drift and disarray within his Administration. Indeed, he is about to enter the most difficult phase of his presidency...
...trouble, partly because of inevitable changes in the world, but largely because of the willfulness of Charles de Gaulle. The operations of the Common Market are deadlocked by a French boycott; NATO faces a complete French pullout. For more than a year, the U.S. has allowed the situation to drift, on the theory that Europe was basically sound and not much was needed to be done. Now Washington is once again turning its attention to Europe and to the ties-uniquely close but uniquely complex-of kinship, common ideals and hard self-interest that bind the Old World...
Illia and his People's Radicals party have let the country drift aimlessly along, doing little or nothing about a chaotic inflation that has pushed the cost of living 63% higher in the past two years. Illia's one real action-cancellation of the foreign oil contracts-has proved a disaster; Argentina, once virtually self-sufficient in oil, now spends $100 million annually on petroleum imports. What irked Ongania more than anything was the regime's soft line, principally Illia's refusal to send troops to join the OAS in Santo Domingo. Ongania grew angrier still...