Word: health
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...American attitude towards marriage between Korean subjects and American personnel was, and still is, extremely harsh. Those hardy enough to apply for permission to marry are required to produce a ream of documents attesting to the character, health, religious, economic and political integrity of the persons applying. Ninety-eight percent of the couples genuinely in love are given a flat "no" on the implied grounds that the Korean is a sort of subhuman type unfit for life...
...What does this picture mean?" asked the electioneering pamphlet coyly. And under a photograph of a curly-topped baby glowing with health. Britain's Labor Party gave the answer: "The prams of Britain are filled with the bonniest babies in living memory. Britain today gives mothers and babies a better chance of good health than any other country...
...Public Health Service had "watched skeptically, hopefully, scarcely daring to believe the evidence." But there was no doubt about it; syphilis was declining. In the last two years the number of new cases reported dropped 20%, even though there were 30% more clinical examinations...
...grunt are, for all that, the merely too emphatic mannerisms of an assured and perfected theatrical manner. When, for instance, a new suitor (Steve Cochran) sighs: "My love for you will last forever," it is with genuine mastery of timing and pitch that Miss West inquires: "How about your health?" In any theater world Mae West would be somebody, if only for being unlike anybody else...
What redeems these diaries from sheer morbidness is Kafka's herculean determination to find health and purpose in his writing. Even when he thought of suicide, he drove himself to his desk. Writing "is my struggle for self-preservation ... Go on working regardless of everything." He went on working...