Word: flyspeck
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...thousandths of an inch square (smaller than a pencil dot), weighed 250 micrograms, and was powered by one thousandth of a watt. Working for two months in his spare time, Caltech Graduate McLellan used sharpened toothpicks, a watchmaker's lathe and a micro-drill press to fashion his flyspeck engine, which operates on the same "synchronous" principle that powers motors weighing thousands of pounds...
...spread. The disease did not reach the U.S. islands until 1918: in 1930 there were only three cases; by 1950 there were 42, and now he claims to have traced 212. Dr. Donohugh painted an alarming picture of what might happen in American Samoa by analogy with the flyspeck island of Nauru, where one leprosy victim landed in 1912, and by 1927 the disease had infected 750 people (one-third of the population). And in a recent survey in the Manua group of outer islands, 153 out of 1,521 people showed suspicious signs, and they were so marked...