Word: suffering
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...first effective trichomonacide taken by mouth; it gets into the bloodstream and can track down the parasites in internal glands where some of them hide. For this reason, it is also the first useful drug for men, who often pick up the parasites from their wives and may suffer urethritis or prostatitis...
...prosperous majority implies moral acceptance of the breadline as a way of life (for others). To advocate a margin of unemployment as if it were static or intermittently fluctuating is to ignore the dynamics of technological unemployment in America. Moreover, it is not only the jobless who suffer. People in mills and factories and offices throughout the country today live in fear that their seniority may soon be insufficient to save their jobs when the next lay-off comes...
...shaped like an Irish setter. Her dogs were her life, but Miss Capers fretted constantly about what might happen when Brickland and Sunny Burch no longer had her to care for them. Who could possibly love them as she had? Determined that her dogs should not suffer, Miss Capers wrote a will-leaving the bulk of her modest estate to the Humane Society of Western Pennsylvania and stipulating that Brickland and Sunny Burch be put to death...
...faded flower. Our collections are blossoming out with Torbidoes instead of Titians, and the names of Bartolommeo della Gatta, Alumno de Benozzo and Cecco del Caravaggio are found on those little, unreadable labels which we persist in affixing to antique frames." University art departments are also apt to suffer from acquisitionitis-the compulsion to get something, no matter how inferior, from as many periods and schools as possible. Advises Rich: "Put the prospective acquisition next to the Goya or the Rembrandt, to see how it holds up. If it doesn't, call Railway Express at once...
...nations stiff conditions that frequently rescue their economies but gall their free-spending politicians. With loans at work in 24 developing nations, the IMF swings considerable weight from the Nile to the River Plate. Last week the IMF announced that it will grant larger loans to nations whose economies suffer from temporary declines in prices of their exports-and do so with less stringent demands for internal corrective policies. The world's underdeveloped nations welcomed the news, but no one expected the IMF to relax much of its vigilance over national economies. The source of the fund...