Word: frontier
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Wife & Washington. When Dick's older brother Harold had TB, Mrs. Nixon took him to Prescott, Ariz., and in the summers, Dick joined them, working as a barker for the wheel of fortune at the Frontier Days Rodeo. He learned the knack of drumming up customers, and his booth became the most popular in the show...
...world which was once set afire by a spark in what is now Yugoslavia has learned to take seriously even the slightest rise in temperature in the Balkan tinder box. Last week diplomatic pulses in half a dozen world capitals thumped over a frontier fracas on a half-submerged sandbank in the unnavigable Evros River which, in one ten-mile stretch, forms the border between Soviet-dominated Bulgaria and U.S.-protected Greece...
Sulfas. By the time the vitamin frontier was thickly settled, another frontier was being opened. In 1935 the French broke the secret of a new German drug and published it: a simple substance derived from coal tar would kill the streptococcus germs that often caused fatal infections. The drug was Prontosil; from it came sulfanilamide, first of the modern "wonder drugs" and first of a long line of sulfas. Other companies were the first to find high-powered, patentable variants like sulfamerazine, sulfadiazine, sulfathiazole and sulfaguanidine. Merck chemists got what looked like a dud: sul-faquinoxaline. Never proved safe...
...speaker was no M.D., no practitioner of surgery on humans, but Ralph E. Witter, a doctor of veterinary medicine, describing a new frontier to fellow vets in convention at Atlantic City. The patients he was talking about: dogs...
...though it had all been a planned maneuver. The Westerners cheered. All that night the men on both sides remained at the alert for an overt move. It never came. Next day the Life Guards decided the Russians would not invade and rolled back to their barracks. The German frontier guards followed. The Communists climbed out of their foxholes and marched home. On the Soviet side the Vopos resumed their ceaseless patrols. On the West, farmers who had watched the "battle" with bated breath, sighed over a damaged crop of hay, flattened with the wheels of armored cars...