Word: sicked
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...weak heart, decreed that the hostage issue would be decided by the Islamic parliament to be elected two months later, in May. The U.N. commission heard and saw grisly evidence of torture by SAVAK, the Shah's secret police, but was not allowed to see the hostages. Sick or not, Khomeini was stage-managing his media event, and he wanted all attention directed at the Shah's crimes, not at the suffering of the hostages. A cautiously worded letter from Hostage William Keough gave his family in Waltham, Mass., a glimpse of the captives' isolation...
...local fighter named Robbie Simms is fighting a fellow named Herrington. Herrington looks unhealthy. This is good. It is like that old joke when you hear that someone is dead and you say, "I didn't even know he was sick." You would not have this problem with Herrington. He excudes cancer. When he dies in the second round he has died of natural causes. Simms is Hagler's half-brother. Two Cains, no Abel...
...admire Hagler. He's good at what he does. But when a boxer's not extraordinary the only thing left is the visceral thrill of seeing someone get knocked down. I feel sick, I feel sick inside. I have seen too many bad fights, too many ugly people. Everyone is gone and people are screaming unnaturally in the tunnels to hear the echo. I feel sick, I feel sick. What is wrong with us? This is the essential question for our times. What is wrong with us? What is wrong with us? People are screaming in the tunnels.CrimsonNevin I. ShalitMARVIN...
...couple of elephants (the bidding on one goes to $21,000, but there is no sale, because the owner values them at $40,000 apiece). There are four giraffes, axis deer, oryxes, African crowned cranes and elands that were hand-raised and are, says Hale, "as gentle as a sick pig." Lynxes, cougars, midget horses are on the block too, as well as a fraternity of elk, including one handsome fellow named Fred, who, according to Hale, has attended two national Elks conventions...
...Albisser, director of biomedical research at Toronto's Hospital for Sick Children, told scientists last week at the annual meeting of the American Association for the Advancement of Science that a lighter and fully automated pump could normalize blood sugar levels at all times of the day by continuously injecting small doses of insulin into a large vein...