Word: affliction
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...brain's ceaseless activity. Located inside the skull about the eye-and-ear level, the Circle of Willis is in too dangerous a place for surgeons to cut into its vessels. Yet the different segments of the circle's perimeter are subject to all the ills that afflict the ascending arteries -and more...
...billion directly-enough to buy 150 million hours of psychiatric time at $20 an hour-and another $9 billion in indirect costs. Psychiatrists believe that about one in four U.S. workers has a personality disturbance, ranging from anxiety and psychosomatic illnesses to the severe mental disorders, e.g., schizophrenia, that afflict an estimated 1% of the working force. Such disturbances, they contend, are the real causes of many of industry's most common employee difficulties: alcoholism, accidents, resistance to authority, high job turnover, shirking, chronic complaints. Emotional illness causes more absenteeism than any other illness except the common cold...
genetic researchers may discover prevent-atives or cures for hereditary ailments that afflict mankind...
...written to Trujillo to suggest a plan to end "the excesses, dry the tears, heal the wounds." In return, "we have promised special pledges in order to obtain from God the boon that none of the members of the [Trujillo] family shall ever experience the sufferings that today afflict the hearts of so many." Thunderstruck by open Catholic opposition, churchgoers left early Masses, talked nervously in church courtyards, returned to hear the letter read again at the next Mass. Collection plates overflowed with cash and donations of jewelry...
General Motors' Corvair, most radical of the Big Three compacts, has had the most complaints, though many were the minor bugs that often afflict a completely new car. Chevrolet took advantage of the steel strike shutdown to correct most of them, including a slipping fan belt and carburetor icing. Biggest complaint against the Corvair is its gas mileage, which sometimes runs well under 20 m.p.g., rarely measures up to other compacts. Part of the trouble may be its gasoline heater, which eats up to a quart of gas an hour. Chevrolet engineers have also remodeled the Corvair...