Word: curely
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...trial-and-error nature of the experiments also makes it possible they will produce a strain of bacteria that could seriously infect man or other animals and for which no cure is known...
Cancer research is an emotional topic for many who have cancerafflicted friends and relatives, Folkman said, so he is wary of either saying the work is progressing well--in which case demands for an immediate cure would besiege him--or saying it progresses slowly--in which case he gets calls urging haste...
...Egyptian Pharaoh Ramses V may have died of it. England's Queen Elizabeth I was so badly stricken at age 29 that she became bald and began wearing red wigs. Even George Washington bore its telltale scars. Their common affliction was smallpox, a fearful scourge with no known cure that until recently still took millions of lives* in Africa, Asia and other parts of the Third World. Now, after perhaps the most extraordinary disease-prevention campaign of all time, it may finally be wiped off the face of the earth...
...crime. He attributes rising crime rates to "the lack of community"--broken families, a lack of accepted values and behavior and other traditional communal ties. He believes there is a lapse of a generation or two between increased affluence and the rise of community and suggests that trying to cure crime through social programs ignores the need for immediate relief...
...arguments to his audience: his writings define punishment to include progressive programs but then he states that none has been successful; he changes emphasis from violent crimes--where his theories have more legitimacy--to small-time street crime in general. But his attacks on social reforms that try to cure the basic roots of crime are superficial: from the courtroom to the parole board, the criminal reform movement has been so understaffed, misdirected and politically compromised that any conclusions are premature and rest on inadequate data. As one Law Enforcement Assistance Administration official said last week, "Wilson can get away...