Word: infirmed
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...from city to airport. Once arrived, passengers must be prepared to wait too long and walk too far in overcrowded terminals. Airports are heavily supported by concessions, from eating facilities to shops, and these are at best inordinately priced, at worst incredibly bad. Worst served are the elderly, the infirm and families with small children...
Most mental and attitudinal changes seen in old people are not biological effects of aging. "They are the results of role playing... They [the aging] are supposed to be physically and intellectually infirm." Example: many old people are uncertain, meandering drivers because they are expected to be, just as many women come to adopt the male notion of the dithering woman driver. "Older, fit drivers are the least dangerous on the road," writes Comfort. "By 70-plus you have experience, and the accident-prone fraction of the population is dead or disqualified...
...more than a year, Eucharistic Congress planners, whose publicity budget alone ran to $296,000, had spread expectations that Pope Paul VI would appear, only to announce as the event drew near that the pontiff, at age 78, was too infirm to hazard the trip. (He had attended previous congresses in India and Colombia but missed the most recent one, in Australia.) But, in fact, the Pope's decision was largely political. For one thing, the pontiff was wary of the partisan overtones of visiting the U.S. during an election year and being greeted by President Ford. Instead...
...healing waters might be forever free to the publick, for the welfare of suffering humanity." Next fall, however, the Virginia legislature is expected to establish a town of Bath at Warm Springs and to sell off 50 acres in building lots to anyone who wants to build houses "for infirm persons...
...side, eyes that shone green when he was excited, stiff military mustache, air of dignity immense!" Alas, last week Christie announced that the archetypal armchair detective, who had been portrayed on film by Actors Tony Randall, Albert Finney and others, had finally finished his long career. Old, infirm and wheelchair-ridden, he would meet his end in her next novel, Curtain -or Poirot's Last Case. Although Poirot's final exploit was originally written in 1940 and locked away until now, the business-wise author declined to reveal any details, preferring to keep them a mystery until Curtain...