Word: sympton
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...increasing population into account, was up 15.3%. For murder, the increase has been 8.9%; for burglary, 14.6%. But one sympton of how haphazardly the U.S. has dealt with lawlessness is that, despite these seemingly precise figures, there is no certain knowledge of just how badly off the country is. Statistics have been kept only since 1930, and their basis-reports of known offenses submitted to the FBI by local authorities-is seriously flawed. In some categories, accurate comparisons between eras and areas are impossible because methods of collecting data have changed and local police departments vary in efficiency and candor...
...masculine world, not of mere retreat as was the 'Imitation of Spenser' (Keats's first poem), it shows Keats still closely tied to half remembered early experience, not yet ready for the full freedom of mature creation." Bate, on the other hand, treats it as a poem, not a sympton...