Word: afflicted
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Wasteful Ways. Today the belly of Paris is badly upset. And the symptoms it suffers from are those that afflict all France-the paralysis of outworn tradition, the plague of overorganized centralization, the jealous persistence in selfish ways. The tradition began in 1134, when King Louis the Fat picked out a quiet meadow on Paris' outskirts for the food marketeers. The meadow has long since been surrounded by the center of burgeoning Paris, but no one has been able to dislodge Les Halles, though it is two miles from the main railroad stations and set in a tortuous network...
...Parliament last week, Sir Winston Churchill said it was his understanding that an "undue number" of bomb tests might afflict the earth's atmosphere for 5,000 years. The Japanese, who get radioactivity from both U.S. and Soviet tests, keep watching their rain apprehensively. Last week they reported a radioactive shower which indicated that the Russians have exploded still another "device" somewhere in darkest Siberia...
...three months, she has become a minor actress and he a major cuckold. It is in dealing with this most ancient crime against man that the play finds its cynical laughter, stagy tears and best scenes: Sam Jaffe is shockingly funny as he recites the litany of despairs that afflict deceived husbands, and Actress Harris is painfully enchanting as she lies and charms away her husband's suspicions...
...four decades in which the PHS has been planning its Clinical Center, the emphasis in medical research has switched from infectious diseases to the chronic, disabling illnesses which are estimated to afflict 25 million in the U.S. The subdivisions of the National Institutes of Health reflect the change: one each for cancer, heart disease, mental health, arthritis and metabolic diseases, neurological diseases and blindness. The only major infectious disease remaining high on the N.I.H. list is rheumatic fever, which can permanently damage the heart...
...holy man was adamant. "Never," said he. "Once I have uttered a blessing I can do nothing about it." Wailing and weeping, the woman rushed indoors. A moment later her husband emerged, prostrated himself on the ground before the swami, begged him to be merciful, not to afflict him with more sons and drive him into bankruptcy. A crowd of neighbors gathered, and their sympathy was with the husband, for they were as hungry and as poor as he. "Withdraw the blessing, withdraw," they cried, but the swami would not. They set upon him with sticks. By the time...