Word: ironical
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...alarming wave of prostitution by teen-agers and young children has struck the U.S., not only in the big cities but also in the small towns of the Dakotas, the Minnesota iron range, Kentucky, New England and elsewhere. Some of the young prostitutes live at home and turn tricks merely for pocket money. But most are runaways. Typically, they are the products of broken homes and brutality, often inflicted by alcoholic or drug-addicted parents. They take to the streets, use their bodies for survival and then, beaten by pimps and bereft of selfesteem, live in fear of reprisal...
...tackling thalassemia (Cooley's anemia), which afflicts an estimated 3 million people globally-most of them of Mediterranean and Asian origin. Victims of this genetic disorder can usually be kept alive by regular blood transfusions. But because the body is not easily able to rid itself of the iron added by repeated blood donations, it accumulates to such an extent that by the age of 20 the heart, liver and other organs can be threatened. Looking for a way to remove the excess iron, the Rockefeller scientists turned to bacteria and fungi. In the course of billions of years...
...conference committee is now trying to iron out the resulting differences. Since there is considerable overlap, a great deal of caucusing is going on between the minicommittees. A rundown of the bill's key provisions and the problems the committee is facing...
Workers yesterday completed a $6500 wrought-iron fence along the Mt. Auburn St. side of Quincy House which the Faculty financed in order to prevent trespassers from bothering house members, and from destroying the grounds, John E. Cady, assistant director of facilities, said yesterday...
...Daily News is a best-seller newspaper, and its writers, it seems, may be forced by time and iron gloves to revert to cheap tactics to maintain the largest circulation in the country. But when Hamill sits down to write a novel, we might hope that he could revise his relationship with the typewriter. Flesh and Blood, Hamill's latest novel, however, exposes Hamill either in a spell of extreme laziness or an inability, after so many years of banging out copy under deadline, to write thoughtful prose...