Word: mentally
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Conibear & Success. "Rowing," says Ebright, "is a strenuous sport, though there is no jarring and no contact. It requires persistence and mental courage. Those that stay with it acquire some of that mental courage...
...past 45 has little greater life expectancy than had his grandfathers; he has the world's highest living standard, but 10% of his income* goes for medical care. "One out of every four citizens will have to spend at least some months or years in a mental asylum. One may wonder indeed whether the pretense of superior health is not itself rapidly becoming a mental aberration...
Guterman's students at Scranton's Hebrew Orthodox Center-from retired Shoe Salesman Morris Greenes, 92, to Accountant Irving Sicherman, 35-look upon their nightly hour of learning as a lot more than mental painting and papering. Every one signed up for his new class, which this week was beginning to study the Talmud all over again...
...crimson gates of Her Majesty's Prison in Salisbury, Southern Rhodesia, a balding little Englishman stood one day last week, blinking in the sudden sunlight. Guy Clutton-Brock, 53, had just been released after 27 days in jail. His wife Molly was 250 miles away in a Bulawayo mental hospital; she had suffered a breakdown following her husband's arrest for associating with African nationalists. Clutton-Brock is what he calls "a practical Christian," and his courageous version of practical Christianity, many African churchmen were saying last week, may be just what is needed to get the church...
...tiny courtroom), a jury of eight women and four men wound up disbelieving Elizabeth Duncan's protestation of innocence. The jury recommended death in San Quentin's gas chamber, left it for Judge Charles F. Blackstock to decide if she should be sent instead to a mental hospital...