Word: infant
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Standard dusting powders containing less than 5% boric acid can be safely used for babies. So reported two Manhattan pediatricians, Alfred J. Vignec and Rose Ellis. The much-publicized infant deaths due to boric acid, they added, have largely resulted from the misuse of solutions with a high boric acid content, often swallowed by newborn infants. Their recommendation: undiluted, powdered boric acid should not be dispensed freely over drug counters...
...years before World War II, the French invested $2 billion in Indo-China, almost all of it in Viet Nam. They built 13,800 miles of roads, railroads and canals; they reduced infant mortality by 50%; their irrigation projects brought 13 million more acres under cultivation. But they were frequently overbearing, took excessive profits out of the country, and were slow about granting any kind of independence to the Vietnamese...
Seldom have the Russians-Czarist or Communist-given their Persian neighbors anything but trouble. In the past half-century, they have invaded the country six times, looted its Caspian caviar and its Treasury. Only the collective wrath of the infant U.N. made the Russians desist from setting up a little soviet in Azerbaijan province right after World War II. A year ago, in the last days of Mossadegh, the Communist Tudeh Party almost took over Iran. After all this, to Teheran's amazement and consternation, Soviet Ambassador Anatoly Lavrentiev last month promised a "great Russian favor": the return...
...extra bottle to fortify them for the long trip back. In La Roche-sur-Yon, a three-year-old boy was admitted to a clinic after his family had tried to cure him of worms with dosages of Pernod. In a town near by, a 19-month-old infant died of acute alcoholism...
Melanie Langdon is the adoring, child-like wife of a rising lawyer in present-day London, the doting mother of an infant son and a happy patient who has just been told that the worst is over in her seven-month siege of TB. Pleasantly contemplating a happy future, she falls asleep on a Victorian chaise longue, a cherished trophy from an antique-buying safari. She wakes up neither in her drawing room nor in her century nor in her own body...