Word: careless
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...same as drivers' licenses." But if the growing popularity of skiing continues to increase the population on any incline with snow, the view of another Austrian lawyer, Dr. Karl Homann, is likely to pack more weight. "Rules are not enough," he says. "You need laws to stop careless skiing. The sport may have risks, but having to bear the carelessness of another is unfair...
...other tissues that normally confine them. Famed Harvard Surgeon Francis D. Moore (TIME cover, May 3, 1963) notes in the textbook Surgery: "In a sophisticated population, sensitive to their own complaints and careful of personal hygiene, one rarely sees the tremendously advanced hemorrhoids that are common in a more careless social stratum." But a woman is liable to develop hemorrhoids during pregnancy because of increased abdominal pressure. And in both sexes, some enlargement of anal veins is so common with the passage of years that Dr. Moore views it as "a normal anatomic variant of aging." Piles may be either...
...potential this year after a somewhat disappointing sophomore season? Grate can jump -- he's one of the few 6 ft. 1 in. players anywhere who can stuff the ball with two hands. He's quick, and can shoot and pass well, but he tends to be careless at times...
...practice forms the theme of The Doctors, a book probably headed for bestsellerdom. Its message seems to be that the ailing human being should keep his malaise a secret from the medical profession; otherwise, the doctor will surely blunder, the emergency ward will let him bleed to death, a careless hospital will expose him to infection and, if none of these death agents succeed, some nurse will administer a fatally inaccurate prescription...
...Assumptions. It is possible that Gross, a freelance writer whose first book, The Brain Watchers, prompted a congressional inquiry into nosy psychological testing techniques, is genuinely interested in sparking a similar inquiry into the medical profession. It is even conceivable that such a thoughtless, careless and incendiary book as this, produced by a layman whose narrative style is not exactly what the doctor ordered ("Major medical policies do not blanketly cover the patient"), will accomplish a worthy...