Word: hardness
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...John Pennel. With both legs bandaged to protect painful shin splints, Pennel cleared the bar on his second attempt at 17 ft. 10¼ - a new world mark by Win. It was the ninth time that Pennel has broken the world record in a career plagued by injuries and hard luck. He went into the 1964 Olympics with a wrenched back and finished eleventh. During the finals in Mexico, he was twice thrown off balance, pole in hand, by a mad flourish of trumpets heralding an awards ceremony. On his second try he cleared what was ultimately the winning height...
...highway patrol-may be the answer for the sociopathic driver, whose chief problem is immoderate behavior behind the wheel rather than at the bar. For alcoholics, Borkenstein cautiously proposes suspending their driving privileges until, through medical and psychiatric help, they have their problem under control. Alcoholism is hard to define and detect, and to penalize a man for such a vaguely defined condition is not consistent with the American concept of civil liberty. As a result, Borkenstein advises against suspending licenses except in cases of frequent alcohol-related violations...
...usually intolerant of the feelings of those around them," says Psychiatrist Burton Podnos, administrator of the local Mental Health Center. Absorbed all day in scientific precision, engineers are apt to accuse their wives of sloppy housekeeping if they find an unwashed coffee cup in the sink. It is hard for some of them to understand why there is not an effective system for toilet-training the baby...
...Francisco State once ranked among the top public colleges in the U.S. It is now a sad symbol of the American campus destroying itself. All sides can share the blame: the minority-group students who made extravagant "nonnegotiable" demands, the divided faculty, the administrators who temporized, the hard-line trustees, the police who broke S.F.'s bloody student strike last winter at a cost of 120 casualties and more than 730 arrests. The past, though, is less important than the future: Is the violence finally under control...
...appetite for action" and its penchant for "taking on tough social questions where the pressures were very high." That penchant has, of course, kept Warren and his associates embroiled in constant controversy. The court has been accused of everything from coddling criminals and handcuffing the police to approving hard-core pornography and banishing God from the public schools...