Word: sicked
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 1980-1989
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...Commission believes that Down's syndrome babies like Infant Doe are entitled to every medical effort because they can live, though it may be a limited life. Moreover, courts in the past have overruled some parents, such as Jehovah's Witnesses opposed to blood transfusions for their sick children. The Infant Doe case is thus something of an aberration...
...Goldman's Marathon Man, browbeating an ailing and clearly enfeebled Laurence Olivier into walking around and around a large room with him, improvising a scene. Recalling this long ordeal, Goldman notes "Hoffman's need to put himself on at least equal footing with this sick old man." Someone else the author will probably not work with in the future is Robert Redford. The actor's role as the Sundance Kid helped make him a megastar. By the time of All the President's Men, Redford was no longer Goldman's old pal but his producer...
...just say the match would have turned out very different if a few line calls would have gone our way," Sands said. "It was really pitiful. I think everyone has a sick feeling in their stomachs. I don't know anyone who's gotten over it," Sands added...
...watched this segment of the "CBS Evening News" with morbid fascination. But as the reality of the death that had occurred before my eyes set in. I began to feel sick and turned off the television. The image of the victim's face stayed in my head. He had been young, probably no more than 20. Now he was dead, his two decades of life gone with the pull of a trigger, his entire existence made meaningless save for the statisticians. I wondered how his parents, if they were still alive, would react. I cried. Then I got angry...
...manuals may be published. Thus, Let Me Die Before I Wake, put out by Hemlock, a Los Angeles-based organization named for the potion taken by Socrates, has been sold freely in bookstores. A more compassionate work than its British counterpart, Let Me Die gives case histories of desperately sick patients who have sought to end their lives. In recounting successful attempts, the book gives the precise doses of the drugs used...