Word: infirm
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...efforts to improve them. Another critic wrote: "He has an unaffected natural talent for praising courage, chivalry and undemonstrativeness in words which inspire distaste for these good things. Have you never risen from a perusal of Mr. Davis on Chivalry with a determination never again, no matter how infirm the woman or how heavy-laden, to rise from your seat in the car for her sake...
...Administration for use in handy quotation. Economic growth "under Eisenhower-Nixon has been miserably slow," trumpeted the Digest. What gains the country did achieve "have heavily favored the moneylenders as compared with farmers, small businessmen and workers." Republican "budget-first fiscal policies" have callously ignored the aged, the infirm, the unemployed, the farmers, the jammed schools and the blighted cities. To top it off, said the Democrats' official organ, the U.S. is "second best" in U.S.Soviet missile and space competition...
Hundreds of thousands of pilgrims poured into the 15-square-mile site on special trains, buses, bullock carts, bicycles and on foot, the old and infirm often carried on younger men's backs. The crowd found one-way traffic patterns, with 200 mounted police and 3,000 other lathi-wielding cops to enforce them. On every road there were medical teams to inoculate them against cholera (though many needle-shy peasants managed to slip past). The festival area itself was sectioned off like the Chicago stockyards with bamboo fencing to keep crowds from clotting. Posted in special watchtowers, police...
Bypassed. As frustrating as such attitudes are to U.N. officials-who would like to close down the European camps-the fact is that "permanent" camp dwellers like the Bojarskis have learned cynicism in a hard school. Largely the aged, the infirm or diseased, or those classified as "asocial" -such as unwed mothers or the "politically unreliable"-they have watched one of the great migratory thrusts of modern history refuse them passage. Since 1947, about 1,500,000 European refugees have been resettled around the world, chiefly in the U.S. (470,000) and Australia (240,000), Canada (186,000), Israel...