Word: infirm
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...mind. Maybe I'm working with an old paradigm, like Munich, but I can't help it. I think of the case of Franz Stangl, a perfectly conventional Vienna policeman and good citizen who after the Anschluss became a security officer at hospitals for the aged, infirm and imbecilic, and helped--humanely at first, so they said--to ease the very worst cases, the utterly hopeless, the deformed and subhuman, toward a death that all reasonable people at the time thought would be the only decent thing. Having launched himself upon the course, Stangl did a giant slalom down...
...would like to think that some day when I am old and infirm, young healthy people will offer to help me across the street, give me their seats on the bus or carry my groceries. To offer help is a mark of respect, not an insult. To offer such help in no way implies that I am better than another person, or that she could not help me as well, with skills that I do not possess...
...jumped into the midst of this chaos chasing after the last bus home. Fraternity and equality were forgotten as we ran through the crowd. All that mattered was liberty. The bus appeared in the distance and a cry went up. The very young, old and infirm were left in the dust as the mob surged forward. We dodged and wove our way to the bus with the knowledge that only the strong would survive. Dashing ahead of a gaggle of tourists in matching outfits, we leapt onto the bus roaring with victory as the doors closed on those...
...symbol of one of the nation's hottest political issues: what HMOs do and don't pay for. Viagra's role in the debate was heightened last week when the federal agency that administers Medicaid told the states that they were required to cover Viagra for the indigent and infirm "when medical necessity dictates," and some of the states--much like tightfisted HMOs--dug in their heels and refused...
...what does the adult Barnaby do for a living? Why, he goes into people's houses as an 11-year employee of Rent-a-Back, a Baltimore firm that performs, for a fee, household chores that are impossible for the elderly or infirm. And sure enough, one of his clients eventually accuses him of stealing $2,960 in cash stashed in a flour...