Word: dying
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...submerged millions-yet the wretchedness of America's poor is accentuated by the opulence of the society that surrounds them. More than 7,500,000 Americans live in rat-infested tenements or tumbledown shacks that are officially-and euphemistically-classified as "dilapidated"; 1,500 U.S. citizens still die yearly from diseases caused by malnutrition; 6,000,000 subsist on free Government surpluses. In today's society, the nation's 11 million functional illiterates are relegated for life to the precarious ranks of the poor...
...while trying to go about their civilian duties. Another 9,000 Vietnamese peasants were killed or kidnaped last year alone, though they had no connection whatsoever with the government. The kidnaped are usually forced into Viet Cong military service or labor gangs. The dead are those who refuse-and die undocumented...
...they have overemphasized the importance of the selection process and obscured the various advantages that every House offers. Actually, most freshmen will find to their surprise that any of the nine Houses has enough merits to keep them well content. The sooner a compromise plan permits the uproar to die down, the better...
Obsolete institutions of the Roman Catholic Church, like old sacristans, do not die; they merely fade away. The latest such anachronism to drift into disuse is the Index of Prohibited Books -some 6,000 immoral or heretical works that Catholics have been forbidden to read under pain of sin. Last week Alfredo Cardinal Ottaviana, whose Congregation for the Doctrine of the Faith is responsible for deciding which books to condemn, announced that the Index would never again be updated or reprinted, and will henceforth serve merely "as a historic document...
...That such elaborate funeral preparations are being made for God by those who are not willing to let him die in obscurity shows that "God is dead!" is a desperate cry for help. May the church prove equal to its task...