Word: nook
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Ever since U.S. hospital authorities learned, to their horror, that dangerous, penicillin-resistant strains of Staphylococcus bacteria were floating merrily in supposedly sterile hospital corridors, no nook or cranny has escaped attention from sanitation experts. Faulty air-conditioning systems, surgical masks, dirty mopheads and bedside water carafes have been implicated as germ carriers. In a speech to last week's American Public Health Association conference in San Francisco, Dr. Howard E. Lind of Brookline, Mass. proposed another target for bug hunters: the pillows on patients' beds...
...near-sightedness may well drive the great powers to divide the neutrals into two sets of allies. But an expanded Cold War is only a more volatile one. The real hope at the United Nations is that the two enemy camps will give way to a more stable, three nook'd world...
...busiest airports (an average of 640 landings and takeoffs a day) and a technological primer of jet age forethought, it has become the prototype and laboratory for many of the world's changing airports. This week ten officials of Aeroflot, the Soviet civil airline, will poke through every nook and cranny of Idlewild on a restricted tour of U.S. airports, searching for ideas to take back home. Cologne is building an instrument-landing runway with narrow-gauge lighting patterned after Idlewild's. Frankfurt has jet-terminal improvements scheduled, but is waiting to see how Idlewild...