Word: frailness
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...Apart from his $119,000 annual pensions and $300,000 in Government-paid expenses, his last TV interview cost CBS $500,000, and his last move from New York to New Jersey netted him a real-estate profit of more than $1.5 million. Though his wife Pat is in frail health after a second stroke last fall, Nixon is quite fit and chipper. Using a new Lanier word processor, he is tapping out his fifth post-White House book, No More Viet Nams. Though there was speculation that he might even play some role at this month's Republican...
They stumble along on dusty dirt paths. Emaciated, frail and ravaged by hunger, they are on a desperate journey for food. Some are blind, a result of vitamin A deficiency, or sick with pellagra, diarrhea, cholera and various starvation-related diseases. Diplomats and relief officials estimate that as many as 150,000 have walked through the desolate bush of northern Mozambique into eastern Zimbabwe in recent months. For every one who has made it to the border, another is believed to have died along...
Mitterrand's working session with Chernenko was stiff and formal: the leaders each read from prepared drafts, but there was no give-and-take. Only just before the banquet did the two withdraw for an hourlong private discussion. Mitterrand later described Chernenko, who appeared frail but not perceptibly ill, as an informed, nimble and animated interlocutor, with more autonomy than Mitterrand had previously thought...
...Stone. We're talking serious, nuts and bolts journalism, the kind that will look, say, at the life of a John Belushi with the toughness with which a seasoned political writer will look at Richard Nixon. Perhaps because it only serves to show how human the stars are, how frail they are like the rest of us, this kind of toughness seems unwelcome in our sometimes squeamish culture. This was made clear by the howls of outrage from the pundits and letter-writers that greeted the portions of Woodward's Wired: The Short Life and Fast Times of John Belushi...
However infelicitous his phrasing, Lamm was praised in some quarters for broaching one of the most sensitive issues of the day. Medical technology has become increasingly successful at keeping frail and withered leaves on the tree long after nature would have let them fall. Today, 80% of Americans die in hospitals or nursing homes, generally in the course of receiving some sort of medical treatment. Doctors no longer speak of death by "natural causes." Because physicians have the capacity to extend life, they often feel obliged to use it, observes Dr. Bernard Towers, who helps direct a U.C.L.A. program...