Word: suffering
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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What we should do is give North Viet Nam 48 hours to withdraw to the DMZ or suffer the complete destruction of its industry in all its cities by saturation bombing...
Radicals at Harvard or from any middle-class area suffer from this phenomenon. While we all indulge in this sort of "easy radicalism" we must accept that, for most of us unwilling to change our social class completely, we are not the leaders of the Movement. Standing above the day-to-day struggle, we are still capable of rendering effective aid even if most of us will probably help in semi-professional elitist capacities as intellectuals, journalists, doctors,or lawyers...
President Nixon last night brought the world to the edge of disaster. As we face the gravest crisis in a decade, we must not forget that it is the Indochinese people who continue to suffer as American planes thunder overhead and a U.S. supported government prosecutes a monstrous war. The President has told Hanoi: surrender, or else we will starve you into submission. We ask the President how much of the world he is willing to destroy in his effort to impose the American will...
...first group consists mainly of people rated as severely or profoundly retarded-those with IQs ranging from 30 down. Usually these people, like Tracy Albertsen, have clearly detectable physical flaws. Some suffer from chromosomal abnormalities, such as Down's syndrome, or mongolism. Others have genetic problems such as phenylketonuria (PKU), a condition caused by lack of an essential enzyme. Still others acquire congenital infections like syphilis or are affected by German measles contracted by the mother...
...less healthy and get less prenatal care. An estimated 30% of America's expectant mothers get no medical attention at all, and these are nearly all daughters of poverty. Their children are more likely to be born prematurely, to contract serious diseases during infancy and to suffer from malnutrition during the first three years of life, when 80% of all brain growth takes place. Doctors and educators agree that language, words as a key to handling ideas, is the sine qua non of intelligence. Yet the children of the poor, white or black, are less likely than middle-class...