Word: block
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...ever steamy window of her curiosity we soon see that this couple's existence is no bed of French lillies, either. 'Grown up for Ann, the late thirtiesh godmother, translates into dyed hair, bulging thighs, chain-smoking, an abandoned child in the distant past and a psychological block against bearing another one ever since. 'Gaining status and respectability' for the godfather, Jean, means becoming so broad-boned and stern-faced, so outwardly tailored to a style of bureaucratic modishness, that when he tries to behave like a kid again he comes off looking like a fool...
...Offensively, we're more than adequate in the skilled positions," Restic said last week, "but we won't be able to capitalize unless we find some new people across the front to block it up. Jim Kubacki won't get the job done by himself," and herein lies the preseason achilles tendon of the 1976 Crimson gridders...
...City. Meanwhile, Mayor Young tried desperately to keep the situation from deteriorating. He announced that "strong young men and women from the schools, the churches, the union halls and the block clubs" will be recruited as a volunteer back-up force for the police. The city will seek more juvenile judges and a new county jail. It will request authority for judges, rather than state social workers, to incarcerate juvenile offenders. A 40-member economic-growth council will be formed to help ease "the crushing burden of unemployment." Earlier, Young had declared, "I want the pimps, prostitutes, gangs and youth...
What is next? "Are we headed in the direction where a woman can sue the police department if she is raped, screams and no one comes?" asks Walton. Shadoan thinks the trend in tort law-toward no-fault auto, product liability and medical malpractice insurance-may block that next step. He points to Great Britain, where "if you get raped, you get medical care and a government payment. Damage suits will soon be a relic of the past." Many lawyers are betting it will never happen...
...that transplanted tissue will not be rejected. Up to now, the usual tactic has been a form of biochemical overkill known as immunosuppression: the transplant patient is heavily dosed with drugs that interfere with the function of white blood cells-the major weapon of the immune system-and block the formation of antibodies. These are the wondrous proteins designed by nature to seek out invading cells, including transplant tissue, and set the stage for their destruction by the white cells. At best, though, immunosuppression is a blunderbuss approach that also leaves the body unshielded against lethal germs and sometimes apparently...