Word: afflicted
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...large social problems of racial prejudice, inadequate housing, poor schools and lack of jobs, which breed so much of the nation's violent crime. With its cultural gaps between white and black, poor and middle class and affluent, the U.S. has very special problems that do not afflict other countries-Sweden or Denmark, for instance-where prison life seems more civilized. The problems are further complicated by a widespread and partly plausible belief that all of the nation's crime and prison troubles result from some fundamental loss of discipline or morality in the society...
...potential hit, Surf's Up is also a song that documents the kind of personal dilemma that can afflict a rock star if he is not careful. Beginning in 1965, Brian could no longer find any satisfaction in sunny days, surfing and driving. He seemed to his friends to be lost and shattered, obviously convinced that the world was too much to cope with. Accordingly, Brian quit public life. Though he continued to make recordings (including the cleverly innovative Pet Sounds), he sometimes would not come out of his Bel Air house for six months at a stretch. Among...
...watched his infant son continue to suckle after his mother had died of cholera. "My wife is dead," the man said numbly. "Three of my children are dead. What else can happen?" With the refugees spreading through the Indian states, carrying the disease with them, the epidemic could rapidly afflict hundreds of thousands of Indians. For this reason, Indian authorities are trying to prevent the East Pakistanis from entering Calcutta, where uncounted millions already live on the streets in squalid conditions that guarantee an annual cholera epidemic there...
...findings could have international significance, since wind-borne woes afflict millions of people on several continents. Italy suffers each year from the effects of the sirocco, France from the mistral, the Alpine regions from the foehn. Chinook winds bring a touch of seeming madness to the Rocky Mountain area each winter, and the Santa Ana wind makes thousands of Californians miserable. Sulman's experiments show that this misery may be lessened...
...audience that lit up as Cavett strolled onstage, obviously to have a good time. Much of that good time would be purchased at my expense, which was only right. Cavett's purpose was to ensure that I would suffer all the shocks, surprises, pitfalls and confusions that afflict the host five shows a week. He succeeded. No sooner did Cavett sit down than he tossed a zinger...