Word: infirm
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None of the defendants quailed; one or two were so old and infirm that they hardly seemed to know what was happening. When quiet, grey ex-Premier Koki Hirota heard his death sentence, he closed his eyes, then turned to look at his weeping family in the gallery. It was the last time he would see them. Japanese newsmen, who had not expected death for Hirota, murmured: "Hidoi! Hidoi!" (harsh, harsh...
...Reds had hoped that bad weather would keep many people from the polls (a small turnout would favor the Communists). The skies were grey; occasional showers and hailstorms pelted voters. The Christian Democrats, striving to get all the voters to the polls, provided ambulances for the sick and infirm. When they ran out of stretchers, hospital attendants carried patients on their backs. The Italian radio announced: "Dear listener, the program is dull from now on-nothing but chamber music. You'd better switch off the radio and go and vote...
...family. For infants, there are bottle-warming services; for young children, playgrounds full of swings and teeters; for older children, necking-room free of cops & robbers; for mother & father, an evening out without the expense of a baby sitter or the trouble of parking; for the aged, infirm or overweight, the chance to see a movie in comfort. For everyone, there are snack bars (with car service), rest rooms, fresh air and, in season, mosquitoes. And proprietors are still innovating: last week, one Tennessee drive-in added a while-you-wait laundry service...
...last week Isaac Hull, fisherman turned boardinghouse keeper, was up & about. It was bitter cold (6°), and he needed an early start at his fire-making. His Hull Home, in downtown St. John's, was jampacked with 70 boarders, most of them government-supported poor, aged or infirm, awaiting admission to public institutions. Proprietor Hull lit the kitchen oil range, then bustled next door to light another in the annex. By the time he was ready to leave the annex, the 15-year-old main building, where he had started the first fire, was doomed. Flames, apparently spread...
...could. One aged man and two aged women abandoned hope of rescue, plunged from the third-story windows to death on the sidewalks. Firemen came in time to snatch six through windows and down the ladders before the gale-whipped flames enshrouded the building. The ailing, the infirm and the bedridden in Isaac Hull's boardinghouse had no chance...