Word: tines
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...opened what the state's Health Commissioner Roscoe P. Kandle called "a new front in an old war." It did so with a new weapon: a more efficient and more economical test for TB infection than any previously available. Developed by New York's Lederle Laboratories, the "tine test" uses no awesome and sometimes painful needle but a disposable gadget with four tiny prongs in its business end. The tines are coated with protein from dead TB bacilli. If the punctured area becomes inflamed within two or three days, it shows that there has been TB infection...
House-to-House. With the backing of state and local TB fighters, Toms River physicians and civic workers organized a campaign to get everyone in the community tine-tested. Not that Toms River has more TB than most other U.S. communities-it probably has less, thanks to uncrowded living conditions and abundant sea breezes-but the makeup of its population is a good cross section of the nation. And it has plenty of what Dr. Kandle calls the "win-it-now spirit," determination to wipe out old-fashioned TB completely before a new super strain of drug-defying bacilli...
Robert Penn Warren is an accomplished novelist, but a poor playwright. His stage version of ALL THE KING'S MEN, which is made of snippets from the book, could be called Brechtian if it were at all successful, but it isn't. Instead, all its hundreds of tine little scenes misfire, and its connective device of a nagging professor, brought in as a foil to Jack Burden, the novel's narrator, simply irritates. The whole thing resembles nothing so much as a College Outline of the book, and only serves to remind one of how very good the book...
With an experienced smirk, Portfolio expressed his educated delight. "Samuel Tech played a beautifully judged game. we was murdered, and we deserved it. By the way, did you see how Billy Oval-tine destroyed our sneak forward-to-half bumper with those circular drops? Masterful!" (Ovaltine is the Sambo's all-East ace borderback...
...either side would achieve "major advances in weapons design.'' Behind their wall of secrecy the Soviets could test clandestinely either underground or in outer space. "The military advantages to be gained from clandestine nuclear testing are great." said the report. "The probabilities of detecting and identifying clandes tine tests are very small." The Neutron Bomb. Pentagon worriers go a step farther than AEC. They argue that the U.S. cannot afford to remain stagnant in nuclear development even if the Soviets do, for clear-cut U.S. nuclear superiority is the best deterrent to attack. A few further nuclear tests...