Word: festers
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Summer School is actually a turbulent breeding ground of emotional traumas. Since most students are too shy to discuss their problems with Health Service personnel, and because few have confidence in the columnists who paddle instant psychoanalysis in the local tabloids, the great majority of emotional disturbances grow and fester, leaving ugly scars on the victims...
Grubb knows the violent legends of the West Virginia mining country, and he knows also how a small American town of 40 years ago could fester in its isolation. But is it possible, this late in the century, to pay off personal debts of anger and love to such a town, as Sinclair Lewis did in Main Street? The immense force of Grubb's writing is flung against enemies long since weakened or dead-boosterism, Babbittry, ignorant refusal to vaccinate schoolchildren. He might as well have written a passionate parable in favor of rural electrification. The Voices of Glory...
...want a chance to prove to people that no matter how big the city is, no matter how complex its problems are, I'll find the necessary talent, men and women to do a job. This could be done. You can't do things by letting them fester...
When patches of empty seats begin to fester in the orchestra of a long-run Broadway hit, a producer will do anything that does not break the Lindbergh law to fill his seats. The commonest hookcrook is the "twofer," a pasteboard promising to sell the bearer two tickets for the price of one more or less. Press gangs range from Westchester to Harlem (where a growing middle class provides some of Broadway's steadiest customers) to drop twofer bait at insurance offices, union halls, colleges, doctors' waiting rooms and similar waterholes...