Word: infirm
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...angriest running battle for control of a major U.S. movie company reached a climax last week. At a special stockholders' meeting, the management of Hollywood's infirm old lion, Loew's Inc., owners of Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer studios, outvoted the forces of Millionaire Canadian Contractor Joseph Tomlinson, Loew's biggest (5%) and unhappiest stockholder. By 3,449,446 ballots to 519,435, shareholders gave President Joseph R. Vogel a solid grip on his board of directors by increasing its membership from 13 to 19. Then they voted in nine management nominees to fill ten empty seats...
Such a determined counterattack against an influenza epidemic has only lately become possible-or been considered worthwhile. For centuries, while far deadlier pestilences were commonplace, the influence seemed unimportant, usually killed only the aged and already infirm (it was jocularly dubbed the "new acquaintance," "gentle correction" or even "jolly rant"). But as the ancient scourges were being brought under control, influenza occasionally became more lethal. Finally, in 1918-19, it erupted in a global pandemic, one of the worst disease disasters in history, which claimed at least 15 million dead-many of them, unaccountably, young adults in their prime. Still...
...Proclaims one Hindu manual for wives: "Be her husband deformed, aged, infirm, offensive . . . choleric, debauched, immoral, a drunkard, a gambler, let him frequent places of ill-repute, live in open sin with other women ... a wife should always look upon him as her god . . . remain with her eyes fixed upon him waiting for his orders...
...some of the "ardent, inexperienced young men," sprawled casually around on the decaying furniture, the $500 seemed a trifle exorbitant, but, the plaintiff was of another mind, and a highly legalistic one. He had 32 pages of services rendered neatly itemized, and a few off-hand comments about his infirm grandmother, whose sleep had been disturbed...
...brought a protest from some of the people eligible to collect it. The Senior Citizens' Club of Medicine Hat adopted a resolution declaring that the money could better go to widows, the handicapped and pensioners. Art Smith, Conservative member of the provincial legislature, declared: "So long as the infirm suffer financially, so long as there are over-burdened municipalities, so long as there is need for roads and education, there is no justification for the dividends." The antiadministration Calgary Herald indignantly advised its readers to "treat the bonus with contempt," and the Edmonton Journal denounced the plan...