Word: infirme
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...variant of the A-2 that triggered a global epidemic in 1957 and killed 19,000, will cause, in healthy victims, illnesses similar to those resulting from earlier strains of A2. Average severity: two to five days of aches, pains and fever. For the elderly and infirm, however, A-2/Hong Kong/68 poses a threat to life. With this in mind, PHS experts have advised physicians to give inoculations of either old or new vaccine only to persons who run the risk of severe complications when they come down with winter's most miserable complaint...
...marching Poor People have tried to avoid this obstacle by limiting their guaranteed-income proposal to those too young, too old, or too infirm to work. But this doesn't strike at the real problem: the shortage of jobs in America for unskilled or low-skilled workers. When there are jobs, they are usually deficient in either money income or psychic income. Welfare programs and retraining are inadequate, and there is a serious question whether they could ever eliminate poverty...
Anthony Mainionis' Haemon is adequate but somewhat colorless. Marian Hailey manages sufficiently to convey the weak-willed and vacillating Ismene--"infirm of purpose," to use Lady Macbeth's taunt. Antigones are rare, but Ismenes are a dime a dozen. Jane Farnol brings a good deal of warmth to the role of Antigone's devoted and solicitous old nurse. Richard Castellano, Edward Rutney, and Garry Mitchell, dressed in blue uniforms with red stripes, are fine as the three guards, who represent the majority of society; they are part of Creon's "featherheaded rabble." They are hard-drinking, vulgar-tongued, card-playing...
...Sangster, 55, Prime Minister of Jamaica for seven weeks, who spent 18 years as self-effacing lieutenant of Sir Alexander Bustamante, the leader of Jamaica's push to independence in 1962 and its first Prime Minister, finally came into his own last January when "Busta," aging (83) and infirm, handed over the reins of his Jamaica Labor Party, which Sangster guided to victory in February's elections; of a brain hemorrhage; in Montreal. His successor is Union Leader Hugh Lawson Shearer, 43, appointed by the Governor General after a party caucus...
...City solely on the basis of certain of its novels, he might conclude that the bulk of the population was Jewish, lived in broken-down Brooklyn brownstones and consisted largely of boys, half extremely Orthodox, the other half rebellions. The fathers of these boys, he would discover, were physically infirm but wise and gentle. Of women there were few: a strong, sad-eyed mother or two kneading kreplech day and night, and an occasional gentile girl with dirty underwear. Inevitably, rebellious and Orthodox boys alike resolved their socio-theological dilemmas and went off somewhere to become either novelists or dentists...