Word: sicked
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...certainly not all these students can be as sick or as crazy as they profess to be. There are undoubtely those among this group who are perfectly healthy. Most are at least as sturdy as the Southern farm boy who has just enlisted or the Black from one of our many ghettos who has just been drafted. The only difference is that the poor can't afford to have their ills diagnosed and recorded; they don't know that a migraine headache might get them out of the Army, they only know that they don't feel good sometimes. Most...
...suggest that history and a Higher Authority than the Council of Churches will determine whether a nation that spends $1.1 billion to celebrate Christ's birthday as a drinking occasion is sick rather than a sinner. As a father, a university faculty member and a human being concerned with the happiness and welfare of my fellow man, I prefer to remain "inappropriately abstinent...
...unrepentant author, and then cited a poem published in last December's Evergreen Review in which Jones exhorted Negroes to "smash the window at night (these are magic actions) .. . Just take what you want. Take their lives if need be, but get what you want." "You are sick," lectured the judge. "Not as sick as you," shot back Jones before leaving for Trenton state prison...
...public attitude toward alcohol: the country is learning to accept its drinking habit as a social custom that is as ineradicable as it is harmless when practiced in moderation. The alcoholic is a product of any drinking culture, but America is beginning to realize that he is a sick man rather than a sinner. Since 1956, the American Medical Association has recognized the alcoholic as a medical problem. The National Crime Commission appointed by President Johnson two years ago has recommended the repeal of all public drunkenness laws, which generate one-third of criminal arrests...
...form of germ," in both of Washkansky's lungs. Drugs given to suppress the immune reaction had inevitably made the patient more susceptible to such an infection. Chief Surgeon Barnard summed up: "I wouldn't like to call this operation an experiment-it was treatment of a sick patient. Although Washkansky died, I don't think we have any evidence that transplantation is not good treatment for certain heart diseases. And we certainly have not found any evidence to discourage us from continuing...