Word: skid
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Journey to Sobriety. Most doctors believe that the only alternative to alcoholism is abstinence. Yet the former Skid Rowers are encouraged to frequent the lounge. They are being conditioned either to give up liquor or become social drinkers. Their therapeutic imbibing was suggested by Psychologists Halmuth Schaefer and Mark Sobell, who disagree with the widely held belief that alcoholism is based on a physiological craving. Instead, they say, it is a psychological ailment, a learned response to stress. Unlike normal drinkers, who may react to anxiety by overeating, taking a walk around the block or hitting someone, the alcoholic...
...could be certain whether he was safer indoors or outside. At the Midnight Mission along downtown Los Angeles' Skid Row, Nicolo Difilipantonio, 70, fled into the street-and was killed by chunks of roofing that fell from the aged building. The mission's 200 other occupants were unhurt; they remained inside. In Sylmar, near the quake's epicenter in the San Gabriel Mountains, Linda Daniheux, 25, remained in bed -and died when the ceiling of her room collapsed. En route to install new equipment at a microwave relay station in the mountains, Arthur Mikkelsen, 46, and Milton...
...Salvation Army seems as foursquare and unchanging as the crisp Victorian bonnets still worn by its ladies. It is almost as if Norman Rockwell had painted the scenes on the mind. Bright-smiling women, their cheeks pinked only with the flush of zeal, ladling out free dinners in a Skid Row mission. Clear-eyed men in high military collars, tootling on flügelhorns and euphoniums on chilly street corners. A brisk song, a quaint sermon. A bunk for the stumbling drunk. Even that perennial embarrassment, an outstretched tambourine and a copy of The War Cry thrust suddenly into...
Donors are both unscreened and untested. Though most whole-blood donors are volunteers in good health, many of the approximately 100,000 plasma donors are Skid Row bums and drug addicts. Desperate for money, they may involve themselves in several programs at once, selling plasma as often as three or four times a week. Many allow themselves to be hyperimmunized, so that their blood will produce disease-fighting antibodies. Others participate in programs that could create RH-factor incompatibilities, exposing them to illness or even death if they themselves should later require blood transfusions or certain types of medication...
...smaller owners fear that the larger ones, like Restaurant Associates, which runs Zum Zum, the Treadway Inn, and Barney's, may simply board up and pay their rent until their leases expire. Jacobs imagines that "we could have a skid row here in one or two years...