Word: fractionalize
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...gallon a year; the consumption of malt liquors (beer and ale) from about three gallons to more than 16. Indeed, beer, which contains only 4% alcohol, as against 12% for table wines, 20% for fortified wines and 40% to 50% for distilled spirits, accounted for all but a small fraction-13% last year-of the volume of alcoholic beverages consumed...
...rare instances causes mild cases of the disease. They feel that regular vaccination would scare off U.S. and Commonwealth cattle buyers, who spend millions annually to buy pedigreed British stock. The current epidemic makes the argument seem outdated. The government already owes British farmers $35 million-only a fraction of the real value-for the slaughtered herds...
...Cage record, but Army won the race. The Cadets had built up a five-yard lead when Huvelle, Harvard's anchor man, began to close the gap. Huvelle came within inches of catching the Army runner but never quite made it and crossed the finish line a fraction behind...
...outgoing Secretary and the military commanders also clashed last spring over the extent of a troop increase. McNamara was successful in persuading the President to give General Westmoreland only a fraction of the new troops he wanted for 1968, thereby avoiding a call-up of the reserves...
...devised by Dr. Vincent J. Freda and Dr. John G. Gorman of Columbia University, working with Dr. William Pollack of Ortho Research Foundation, the new technique is to vaccinate the mother immediately after the birth of her first Rh-positive child with a blood fraction containing other people's anti-Rh antibodies. These stifle development of a lifelong "active" immunity and in stead provide her system with a short lived "passive" immunity, and her system is far less likely to develop virulent antibodies. So far, reports Ortho, of 825 women treated with the fraction, only one became sensitized...