Word: bier
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...study of 1,500,000 men called for examinations between 1960 and 1962, Col. Robert A. Bier, chief medical officer for the national Selective Service System, found that 382,000 (or 25.4%) were granted medical deferments. Chief causes were musculoskeletal complaints (14.9%) such as stiff arms, trick knees, flat feet or the loss of an index, middle or ring finger from at least the mid-portion (slicing off the first joint will not do). Cardiovascular diseases and psychiatric disorders-including homosexuality and bedwetting -each accounted for 11%. So did being 20% overweight or underweight. Bad eyesight claimed 6%, while...
Because the armed forces have such a "large pool of available manpower," added Bier, they "can be very selective." Anyone who needs special clothing and equipment, might require excessive medical care or could prove a hazard to himself or his buddies, may be turned down. The general rule, he said, is: "If in doubt, reject...
...photographer observes the toadies and the plotters at the bier, but is astonished to find that decent people, who were crushed by the little figure in the glass-topped casket, mourn him as well. Blindly, stupidly, they still love him-the discarded wife, the girl friend whose family he once imprisoned, the aging professor whose career he ruined. In fact, Author Mnacko's outrage goes deeper than politics: with Swiftian anger, he condemns the victim as well as the tyrant. As a writer, however, he is no Swift. The novel is at times clumsy and dated: conversations are imagined...
...that his achievements warranted. Flanked by flowers, rows of his decorations and a military honor guard, the body of Konrad Adenauer lay in state in Cologne's soaring cathedral. As the country observed seven days of mourning, thousands of Germans, many in black, some weeping, filed past his bier in final tribute...
...Could Get Killed is almost salvaged by the gravelly glamour of Melina Mercouri, the resident adventuress who somehow plays every role as though she has just been ordered to quit port on the next steamer. Melina first appears in funeral garb, crying into her former paramour's bier while one black-olive eye winks out a thinly coded message to Garner. When her friends are in trouble, Melina growls: "Try the harbor master; he is in love with my aunt." When a search party orders her to take everything off, she starts by removing her eyelashes, then plucks away...