Word: decays
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Have you looked at the A.F.L.-C.I.O. executive committee?" says Hoffa. "If you cut all the decay out of that committee, there'd be no one left standing up. They're a bunch of tired old men. They couldn't plan nothing." Jimmy may not be the most respectable witness, but he has a point. At 71, George Meany grows more curmudgeonly by the day. The average age of Meany's eight-member executive committee is 66, against 62 for the U.S. Supreme Court...
...north side of the city just 20 blocks from the Loop, the neighborhood still had its solid old houses with the high-Victorian flare that had been built in the 1880s. But the solid burghers who built them had long since moved to the suburbs. And decay had left the streets lined with seedy bars and sleeping bums...
...Many other communities are debating whether to adopt fluoridation. Though almost all doctors are convinced that the addition of a minute amount of fluorine (usually in the form of sodium fluoride) is the best way to prevent tooth decay, a large number of citizens' groups loudly oppose it, contending that fluoridation is a Communist plot to poison the nation. Amidst this fuss, two University of Rochester professors last week published a massive monograph with all the pertinent facts, pro and con, on the matter. In their 786-page Fluorine Chemistry, Volume IV (Academic Press; $28), Dr. Harold C. Hodge...
...Though fluoridation does not prevent all tooth decay, it reduces the number of cavities by at least one-third and as much as two-thirds. Cavities that do occur are not so deep, nor do they enlarge so fast, as those in children who have not had fluorides...
...legitimacy throughout the Communist world, Moscow and Peking could in time be locked in a bitter internecine contest to re-establish the gospel of Lenin in all its belligerent purity. In appeal and purpose, Communism today is unquestionably a failing creed. Yet it is precisely in decline and decay that ideologies, like empires, can prove most dangerous...