Word: livered
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...institution is toppled and all behavior patterns are violated, the euphoria of freedom turns to boredom. Today the vitality of Los Angeles is beyond dispute, but San Francisco's health is questionable. The city that spawned a counterculture now leads the nation in suicide and cirrhosis of the liver. Nor is California any longer a rollicking trend setter. While innovators in other states experiment with megastructures and mass transit, Californians dawdle with their latest amusement: the video game...
...life." In industrialized societies, environmental factors have already been proved to be responsible for up to 40% of all human cancers; for example, doctors have found a high incidence of an otherwise rare form of lung cancer in workers exposed to asbestos, and are discovering another rare form of liver cancer among those who have worked with vinyl chloride. In 1958, a British physician named John Higginson was challenged by a skeptical scientific community when he suggested that 70% to 80% of all cancers are environmental in origin. Now many scientists suspect that the actual figure may be closer...
Well, while you were inflicting cruel and unusual punishment upon your liver about sixty guys dressed in Crimson were going through a ritual known as "playing football." People ask football players "do you play football," and football players answer, "yes, I play football," but unless you've "played football" you really don't understand what an incredibly complex ritual "playing football...
...sure he believed in Bentley's theory; he was suspicious of anyone assigning grand motives to him--whether commencement speakers or his parents. But it was as good a theory as the next. And Kojak was a cheap and convenient life-line. Besides, he didn't have the liver for non-stop drinking and his backhand had always been suspect...
Illness was a constant theme of her story. Throughout her life, she suffered from an extraordinary variety of ailments: cancer, TB, liver disorders, emaciation, unexplained fevers, fainting spells and subcutaneous bleeding, among others. She is a great believer in nature cures, which she urged on Witke, including a potion made of lotus stock (to ease urination), a solution of sea water and bamboo (good for the gums) and dried white lilies (curative powers not specified...