Word: suffering
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Some 10,000 Americans suffer irreversible kidney failure each year. The human body cannot survive longer than about three weeks unless it can rid itself of the waste products that are normally extracted by the kidneys and excreted in the urine. This means that the victims face certain death unless they can do one of two things: 1) receive intermittent dialysis treatments, in which the blood is removed from the body and cleansed of most of its impurities, or 2) get a kidney transplant. Both alternatives are expensive. Dialysis can cost $25,000 or more a year; a kidney transplant...
...Partial color blindness, a genetic defect that affects over 8,000,000 Americans, is an incurable affliction. But for those who suffer from the most common form of the disease-the inability to distinguish between reds and greens-a Waltham, Mass., optometrist named Harry Zeltzer now offers some relief. He has found that a red contact lens, designed to be worn on only one eye, improves color discrimination. Zeltzer and other optometrists have prescribed the new lens for some 50 men, most of whom report that they can now distinguish colors they have never before seen...
...courts, press and other institutions, 1,029,910,000 people are "free" (in the Western states, India and Japan, among others), while another 720,630,000 are "partly free" (among them: the South Vietnamese). But fully 1,583,551,000 people-nearly one-half the world's population-"suffer severe political and civil deprivations." The year's big loser was Africa, which showed "an almost irreversible trend toward more military and one-party states...
...private truces with the world in order that they may continue to grow past adolescence. Those critics who claim they find no love in Updike can't be looking very carefully; though he can playfully delineate the exaggerated irritations of the emotionally cramped, most of Updike's heros suffer from their desire to hoard the love they have--and from their resulting febrility. At least two stories, "The Day of the Dying Rabbit" and "Man and Woman in the Cold," make the re-assertion of tenuous connections between father and children seem the beautiful victory not only of love over...
...Lobby's petition raised speculation that the ACSR, set up last month to advise a Corporation subcommittee on questions of corporate responsibility, might suffer the same late as the Committee on Rights and Responsibilities...