Word: sicked
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Edward B. Childes, a shop steward at the Adams House dining hall, said earlier this week that students should be entitled to sick days and pay on union holidays, for which they are not currently eligible. James H. Neil, a shop steward at Lowell, added that dining hall managers can currently send students home if they are not needed on a day they are scheduled to work
...libeled if called a liberal: "The White House is in full retreat-and if the President does not step out into the middle of the road and fire a pistol into the air, it will degenerate into a rout. Upon that assessment, those rejoicing at the spectacle and those sick at heart over it are in concurrence." Buchanan is among the sick at heart...
...Miskito prisoners. The state security people said they would have to be killed, and it should look as if they died in combat. When this was discussed, I practically went into a state of shock because of the moral conflicts it caused within me. It made me sick. They wanted me to provide soldiers to dig the graves, guards to control the Miskitos while they were being shot, trucks to transport them. I don't know if this massacre actually happened or not. On Aug. 10, I left Nicaragua...
Cancer specialists cannot afford such bravado. Most of their patients do not recover. "When you see as many people as I do," says Arnold Brody, "you collect quite a stable of sick friends. Then they start knocking off. It's like losing a friend every month . . . Year after year after year...
...packed their families and belongings into their cars and hit the road to find work. The Village Voice compiled horror stories of poor, homeless people who testified before a Congressional panel just before Christmas. The tales included people sleeping in Salvation Army clothing deposit boxes and pretending they had sick relatives in order to enjoy the warmth of hospital waiting rooms. The vignettes were introduced as "the most enduring monument to Reagan's President--the creation of a subculture of misery...