Word: field
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...over Yale set the stage for a Harvard-Brown final, played late Saturday afternoon on a flood-lit Bruin field...
...himself as a "burnt out" case. The condition is familiar to child-abuse workers, whose divorce rate is above the national average. They suffer a notably high proportion of nervous breakdowns. After a few years on the job, many leave the service to earn a living in totally different fields in order to escape the tension and responsibility. Belisle, at least, still works for the protective service. But he does not go out on cases. He sits at the phone in the screening room. Phone work, screening incoming reports on child abuse, is at least one remove from the desperate...
...such times Belisle, like other field workers, tries to concentrate on the pain the child has endured and is likely to endure again if it does not escape from home. The screening room file cabinets are filled with case histories: babies with cigarette burns on their tongues; small children whose backs have been scarred with human bite marks; innumerable children with the classic child-abuse injury: the telltale "spiral fracture," a twisting, lightning-shaped bone break caused by extreme twisting of a spindly arm. But having invoked the memory of such things. Belisle gets a measure of relief by correcting...
...jobs. Says New York City Council President Carol Bellamy: "Politics has a terrible reputation. We're striving to come up to the level of the used-car salesman. So if you have some options, who's going to go into politics?" Why, indeed, would a career woman select a field in which she is likely to have to invest a lot of money, disrupt her family and probably end up thwarted...
...best at the full pitch of his feelings, does not seem to wait around for second thoughts. Comes a Time contains deft insights ("I can't believe how love lasts a while/ And looks like forever in the first place") and the occasional turns of phrase ("In the field of opportunity/ It's plowing time again") that grate and shudder like bad brakes on a heavy...