Word: concernedly
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Huge stacks of books and magazines on UFOs and other astral bodies were reminders of the Grenadian leader's principal foreign policy concern. On three separate occasions in the past five years, he had proposed that the United Nations undertake studies of UFOs, which he insisted were space vehicles used by aliens of extraterrestrial origin...
...which has been flooded by thousands of deinstitutionalized patients, are beginning to cry out in anger. Says Manhattan Councilman An-.onio Olivieri, a liberal reformer: "The indiscriminate dumping of mental patients is creating new psychiatric ghettos in the cites. The policy is absurd." Psychiatrists are starting to share his concern. They fear that the increasing number of schizophrenics and other psychotics on the loose, particularly in the cities, may yet develop into an explosive political issue...
...promising as this research has been, Government agencies did not open the funding spigot for it until the 1970s, when the return of many drug-addicted veterans of Viet Nam prompted concern about just how such opiates as heroin and morphine work. The payoff came quickly. In 1973 three groups of researchers, Solomon Snyder and Candace Pert of Johns Hopkins University, Eric Simon of New York University and Lars Terenius of Uppsala, Sweden, announced almost simultaneously the discovery of specific receptors for such opiates in the brain. Snyder's lab located a high density of receptors in the medial...
...natural linguist, Hayward taught himself Russian as a teen-ager by plowing through an untranslated tome on gypsies. Between studying at Oxford in the '40s and returning there to teach in 1956, he spent two years in the British embassy in Moscow, where he developed a passionate concern for the literary culture stricken by Stalin's purges. He eventually became, said a colleague, "the custodian of Russian literature in the West...
...phone somebody than to look something up, the hot line may prove more of a debilitating crutch than a boon to education. But so far, the hot-line faculties report, Kansas students have not thrown their Fowlers to the winds. The service has led to more, rather than less, concern about learning usage...