Word: robustness
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Health and age were clearly linked. At first it seemed the need for a robust Pope might eliminate the previous rule of thumb that made 60 an absolute minimum age for a new Pope. But this idea receded as the week progressed, partly because tradition is not easily abandoned in the church, and because the Cardinals are only too aware of the unpredictability of human life and death. (It was recalled that Leo XIII was notably frail but lived to be 93. When a well-wisher said to him, "May you live to be 100," he replied...
...will have to devote more of his carefully allotted time than ever now to nurturing this fragile infant that he has helped to midwife into robust life. Good. Let the trivia-like foreign pilgrimages, town meetings and water-project vetoes-that have cluttered and complicated his world so far be conveniently forgotten now and then as he goes after a genuine Middle East peace. That issue and the other big one, inflation, are enough to justify his salary for the rest of the year...
...said, the U.S. shouldn't look back: other countries are gaining on its lead in productivity. In the past decade, U.S. output per hour worked in manufacturing has risen only 27%, exactly the same as anemic Britain's, much less than half as much as that of robust France, West Germany and even Italy, and only one-quarter as much as Japan...
Five years after the crunch, most oil firms are as robust as ever...
Ivan Doig avoids such traps. Exercising a talent at once robust and sensitive, he redeems the promise of those first fetching sentences. His mother's final breath came in a remote Montana place where "a low rumple of the mountain knolls itself up watchfully, and atop it, like a sentry box over the frontier between the sly creek and the prodding meadow, perches our single-room herding cabin." They were, he and his parents, "secure as hawks with wind under our wings...