Word: infantability
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...mysterious disease which starts like a common cold but kills its infant victims within hours was worrying doctors and parents in Tacoma, Wash. The sixth victim, three-month-old David Le Fever, was found to have died of double-edged pneumonia: simultaneous virus and pneumococcus infections...
...cartoonists," mutters Hal Boyle, columnist, "always picture the new year as a husky infant, cheerfully shouldering the old year off the stage. It is an inaccurate portrait," he concludes testily, "and it is even more inaccurate this year." All of which is most mysterious. We can understand assaults on St. Nicholas, whose ubiquity has cheapened the season's spirit, and on the scrawny puritan that well-fed Thanksgivers are wont to evoke. But why pick on the new year's babe...
Further south, the husky infant is poking about the Pentagon, the Treasury building, and other, sites of high-level policymaking, as the new cabinet of industrialists prepares to match its chromium lances with assorted governmental dragons. And who else could be the author of the nation-wide myth which prescribes such a cabinet as the sole cure for the country's woes? Efficiency, perhaps, and a greater measure of honesty are plausible predictions, but only the new year's child could produce the visions of miraculous relief currently fashionable...
...criterion for festive symbols is concreteness, then, who can doubt the babe's efficacy? If anything should be assaulted, in fact, it is the ancient who allegedly typifies the waning year. Lately, the only figure shoved around on time's stage by the lusty infant is his own last year's image...
...ever thought otherwise? Who has ever considered Claus stupid or sinister? Or a criminal? No unspoiled infant, surely. But men of great power and responsibility, judges and prelates, have pulled this once-proud figure to depths of shame and obloquy...