Word: alcoholisms
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Muskie is nominated, his aides will doubtless do their best to eliminate some of his worst puns from the national hustings. But once punning gets into the bloodstream, it seems to be as intoxicating as alcohol. Even that master of precooked prose, Richard Nixon, could not resist a pun on the morning after he was elected to the presidency. Referring to a presidential seal that Julie had stitched and framed for him, Nixon described it as "the kindest thing that I had happen, even though it's crewel." That conjures up the frightening vision of a Nixon-Muskie race...
Another drug, more widely used and abused, was the subject of a Government report last week. Alcohol, said the National Institute on Alcohol Abuse and Alcoholism, is the cause of the nation's major treatable-but largely untreated-illness...
...country's 95 million drinkers, nearly 9,000,000 are victims of alcoholism. Besides causing intense emotional suffering, the institute reported, alcoholism shortens the life of people by ten to a dozen years, sometimes through slow damage done to internal organs, sometimes through swift violence: autopsies show a high alcohol content in the blood of half of all traffic-accident victims and a third of all murder victims-many of whom were presumably killed by other drinkers. In addition, alcoholism costs the U.S. $15 billion a year in property damage, lost work time and for health and welfare...
...month, an official inquiry into cruelty at a Lancashire mental hospital described how patients were locked in closets for being "mischievous," how they were half-strangled with wet towels if they became violent, and how one victim had been injured when male nurses filled his dressing-gown pocket with alcohol and then set it afire...
Since that discovery, about two dozen molecules, including carbon monoxide, formaldehyde, ethyl alcohol and water, have been identified in distant space...