Word: infirm
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...strandee by making a repatriation loan for the price of a return ticket, plus a small subsistence allowance-both on condition that the strandee surrender his passport. The State Department then holds the passport until the loan is repaid. In practice, only the mentally ill, the seriously injured, the infirm, the aged and "those with a hardship story good enough to make strong men weep," to quote a longtime observer, have any hope of being repatriated...
...abroad or to pay his fare home," insists Ralph Cadeaux, chief of special services at the U.S. consulate in London. Some 300 young supplicants call on Cadeaux every week. In bona fide emergencies, he lets them call home from the consulate-collect. In Paris, only the seriously injured, the infirm and those with a hardship story good enough to make strong men weep have any hope of parting the consulate from $235 for air fare home and a $40 subsistence allowance. Of the hundreds of hard-luck kids whom consular officers interviewed last year, only eleven passed his truth test...
Moving Sidewalks. Baggage-laden passengers arriving at Cleveland's Hopkins International Airport 15 minutes before flight time, for example, stand a good chance of missing their plane if it is scheduled to depart from a distant gate in the new South Concourse wing. To carry the aged and infirm down that seemingly endless corridor, Hopkins International has put into service a small fleet of motorized carts...
From remains found in Europe, archaeologists have already concluded that Neanderthals were skilled hunters and toolmakers, held formal burial rites that indicated a belief in an afterlife, and even practiced a primitive form of Social Security for their aged and infirm. More recently, paleontological examination of skeletons has suggested that Neanderthal man's stooped appearance may have been the result of disease rather than low evolutionary status. According to this theory, he was plagued by a dietary deficiency of vitamin D. This deficiency was aggravated by the diminished sunlight of the ice age, and eventually caused rickets...
...that starvation be banned as a means of warfare. "Bacteriological warfare," he says, "was outlawed in the 1920's because it was argued that germ warfare was indiscriminate in its effects on women and children. Actually starvation is not just indiscriminate, but it only affects women, children, and the infirm. Fighting men never starve because they can seize supplies in the territory they patrol." The Swedish government has asked the United Nations General Assembly to act on this ban as well as Mayer's proposal to start an independent international relief organization to deal with famines...