Word: sicked
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...hope makes much of the American phenomena (swimming pool culture, perversions of academia, postmarital sex life) dissected in the novel seem not so much horrifying as pathetically funny. In taking this approach to life in American society. Lebowitz has come up with something different and genuinely beautiful as sick sixties fiction goes...
...sick and tired of hearing about Frank Champi. I'd imagine that even Frank Champi is tired of hearing about Frank Champi. But I would like to add an opinionated footnote to the Champi ease...
...which ran in several of TIME'S regional editions, showed a child peering through a door window bearing a "clinic closed" sign. Readers were asked to "help Surgoinsville find a doctor"-and, as it turns out, they did just that. The "Surgoinsville Interested Citizens' Committee" (SICK) received scores of responses. Sixteen physicians were among those who wrote, inquiring about setting up practice in Surgoinsville. By last week, the town had narrowed the candidates down to four, and it hopes to have its new doctor soon. "We had no idea that we could unleash such a landslide of publicity...
...mind, however, Kennedy has obviously learned to live with the tragedy of Mary Jo Kopechne's death and his political misfortunes. In recent days, he has displayed a marked resilience. He has lost 20 lbs.-leading to a Capitol Hill sick joke: "There must be an easier way to lose weight." He is clear-eyed, the puffy jowls are gone, his hair is razor-cut in the back with the sideburns shorter. His handshake is firm once more...
...John Shea, vice-president for student affairs, said that blood tests given to the gridders showed that all of them had the virus, although not all were sick yet. He said that the college plans to isolate all those infected in order to prevent spread of the disease to the rest of the student body...