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Word: yetlington (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1960-1969
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Usage:

...even in the midst of epizootics, when tens of thousands of animals have had to be destroyed, man has seemed almost miraculously immune, no matter how closely he may have worked with the afflicted livestock. To Bachelor Bob Brewis, who lived on his brother's farm in Yetlington, a tiny village in England's North Country, a doctor's suggestion that he might have Britain's first human case of foot-and-mouth disease was too ridiculous to take seriously...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Infectious Diseases: The Foot-&-Mouth Man | 12/16/1966 | See Source »

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