Word: traced
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...accuracy in pinning down the tumor site with the aid of a dye tagged with iodine-131. Other doctors have not been able to get as good results so the search goes on. Boston's Dr. Abraham S. Freedberg is encouraged by the way radioactive rubidium (a rare trace element in the body) concentrates in the tumor more than in healthy brain tissue making the cancer easier to spot...
...dramatic" interludes are not-so-gentle burlesques of just such shows as King's Row. Playing all the roles themselves, they have produced Mr. Trace, Keener Than Most Persons (The Leaky Refrigerator in the Efficiency Apartment Murder Clue), Jack Headstrong, the All-American American (now working on an interplanetary motorcycle), and Mary Backstage, Noble Wife ("There's usually an amnesia case or a brain operation going on"). Another character, played by Ray: Mary McGoon, a composite of all women commentators and home helpers (her cure for a cold: goosefat in an Argyle sock, hung around the neck...
...fast as the mass graves can be dug, cattle, sheep and goats from the infected farms are herded into them and shot by Royal Canadian Mounted Police constables with .303 rifles. More than 1,200 animals have already been killed or condemned; the slaughter will continue until the last trace of the disease is buried...
...Operation Overlord (the Normandy invasion). Ironically, the Nazis made no use of the information for fear that Diello, who operated with the code name "Cicero," was a British plant. Most of the ?300,000 paid to him by the Germans turned out to be counterfeit. Cicero finally disappeared without trace,* while British and German agents played hide & seek for his hide...
...determination and persistence of its snow is no new phenomenon for Cambridge. A few years ago a couple of Sno-Gos-those goose-necked tractors which effectively chew up snow and squirt it into trucks--briefly appeared in the Square, then disappeared without a trace. In their wake returned the good old snowplows, smearing the snow into well-glazed flat surfaces and impenetrable mounds...