Word: personal
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Jerusalem showed a visiting notable around the city, and when they returned to the car there was a ticket on it. The Arab asked about the paper on the front of the car, and the Mayor replied that he had probably parked wrong. The Arab asked if the person who gave the ticket knew that the car belonged to the Mayor, and the Mayor replied that it was possible, but that it didn't matter. The Arab, becoming increasingly more horrified, finally asked the Mayor what he was going to do with the ticket. 'Pay it, of course' the Mayor...
...second time around a person gets more of a bang," explained Dr. Peter H. Knapp of Boston Medical School, in whose laboratories the study was conducted. "Is it because the smoker has learned to let go," he continued, "or is it that the drug is piling up in the nervous system? If so, it might cause physiological damage...
...contribution with overall guidelines, rules and benefits vary enormously from state to state, city to city. In Cleveland, 80% of those who apply for welfare are accepted; in Houston, only 30%. In one important program, Aid to Families with Dependent Children, New York State offers benefits of $71.75 per person, as compared with $8.50 in Mississippi. No one knows how much the wide welfare gap between North and South has contributed to the migration of poor Southern Negroes to big-city ghettos-but it must have been a factor...
...Evtushenko, and points out that the poet, who is now 35, has long been treading a perilous double course between compliance and resistance, in a sincere struggle for the liberalization of Russia. "But you get tired, you get old, you want comfort," Hayward says. "Evtushenko is a decent person who has succumbed to pressures that are almost inhuman...
Because influenza is seldom fatal for a person who is in generally good health before he catches it, some authorities have described Hong Kong flu as a "mild illness." That is highly misleading. All types of influenza virus are about equal in their ability to cause severe illness. What varies enormously-and with it, the ultimate severity of the disease-is the individual victim's constitution and resistance. Some otherwise healthy people are especially susceptible to disabling illness that lasts several weeks. Others can throw off the flu after a week or so, with perhaps half that time spent...