Word: griefs
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...died between Friday and Sunday nights, and by Monday morning death's wide swath had left the staff physically and emotionally exhausted. It was time for a tall, somewhat stout, white-haired woman to provide the reassurance of her presence: standing in a stairwell, in the path of grief-bruised nurses and doctors, greeting each with a jovial smile and concerned questions: "How was your weekend?" "Are you exhausted?" "Are you coping...
Sharon Hall, 35, and her mother Helene Tilch, 59, seemed beside themselves with grief last December when they identified Jane Doe No. 70, a corpse at the Los Angeles County coroner's office, as Hall's sister. Later, authorities discovered there was no sister. Sharon Hall had used the coroner's death certificate to fake her own demise, sidetracking creditors and probation officers who were on her trail. Hall was sentenced to two years in prison for the scam; her mother got 16 months...
...Cayea, for example, who took a course at New York City's Corporate Communication Skills, Inc., learned not to argue with a hostile judge. Instead, if the bench repeatedly sustains his opponent's objections, Cayea now looks pleadingly at the jury and shakes his head in a gesture of grief. After taking Applied Theater Techniques' course, a female attorney in California overcame her irritation at a judge who insisted on calling her "little lady" by imagining the male chauvinist in a pink tutu and ballet slippers...
Dukakis thought all the energies of grief should be channeled into his own current project, the reform of the Massachusetts legislature. He quoted a Kennedy speech on the subject and concluded his column...
...that cannot acknowledge blame without worrying about legal liability. Before the passengers on Flight 655 were even buried, Washington policymakers were locked in a distracting wrangle over whether to pay damages. The questionable notion that some form of monetary compensation to the victims' families could assuage Iran's grief was advanced by House Speaker Jim Wright and Republican Senator John Warner. The Administration has agreed to study the possibility of such payments, and the President is leaning strongly in favor of them. The primary obstacle appears to be political: 61% of those polled oppose such payments...