Word: swig
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...environs), locale for the biggest U.S. field trial of any live-virus vaccine (TIME, Feb. 29). As of April 30, when Florida's polio season was beginning and authorities halted vaccinations to keep test results as clear as possible, no fewer than 413,336 residents had taken a swig of the sweetish, pink vaccine developed by Lederle Laboratories' Dr. Herald...
...Institute's Dr. Hilary Koprowski, charging that it contains viruses that cause disease in monkeys and might be dangerous for man.) Dr. Sabin gives his vaccine in three separate doses a month apart-one for each main type of polio virus. Dr. Cox and colleagues give a single swig of trivalent vaccine...
Just before stepping out of an airtight mock-up nose cone at Ohio's Wright Air Development Center last week, Civilian Engineer Courtney Metzger took a swig of water. "It tastes much better than the ordinary kind in the supply tank," he reported to Space Physician John Paul Stapp. Agreed Stapp: "It's no worse than some of the stuff you get at cocktail parties." As part of Project Hermes, a program that aims to give the first space travelers all the comforts of hygiene, the water had been distilled from Metzger's urine...
...headed for London, searched out old army buddies who polished off one of the two-gallon crocks. The other he took back to Canada, where Her Majesty's Canadian Customs Department heartlessly ruled that he was entitled to bring in one quart of liquor and not a nostalgic swig more. Seymour got himself licensed as a liquor importer, paid $23.99 in fees. last week dispensed sparing nips from the crock to friends, who glowed over the "wonderful aftertaste...