Word: sicked
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Once an amiable rendezvous for Arab and Jewish smugglers, Metulla (pop. 500) is now the focus of Israel's "good fence" policy with Free Lebanon. Each day, across the heavily fortified Israeli border come day laborers, sick children bound for Israeli clinics and expectant mothers eager to give birth in Israeli hospitals. Traffic in the other direction is mostly military. Israeli officers make daily visits to offer advice and encouragement to an unlikely ally. Explains one Israeli commander: "As long as the P.L.O. is kept out, we don't care if the devil runs Lebanon...
...skits or magic tricks and made balloon sculptures. Often they just talked quietly with a patient, held or hugged him. As one clown explained: "Sometimes when we don't say so many words, the Word comes through more clearly." They had such success at reaching out to withdrawn, sick and lonely people that the idea quickly spread. Peckham now estimates the number of Holy Fool groups alone at 2,000 of the total 3,000. There are even Roman Catholic clowns. Says Father Nick Weber, a Jesuit priest and a clown whose ministry is an itinerant sidewalk circus...
Jeffrey Brown, 11, came home from a Cub Scout meeting in Dedham, Mass., one day last spring feeling sick. He had vomited, and by next morning was lethargic and complaining that his neck hurt. Jeffrey seemed to be coming down with a sore throat, but soon his temperature reached 106° F (41° C). A lymph gland in his neck swelled to golf-ball size, his lips and tongue turned strawberry, and scarlet blotches appeared on his chest and back. Jeffrey's illness: a perplexing and long unrecognized childhood malady called Kawasaki disease...
...that would have been good enough for the gold. "They said I fouled by dragging my right foot at the end of the step," he recounted. "When I demanded an English interpreter and appealed for the track referee, the judge just shrugged and had the area raked. I am sick over it!" All told, Campbell and Brazilian Joao de Oliveira, 26, the Soviets' other main challenger, were called for fouls on nine of their twelve jumps...
...return to the Indian symbol have trumpeted their dismay, claiming minority interests have received preference over others, and that the 1973 ban of the symbol constitutes a curtailment of their right to free expression. One English professor was quoted in The New York Times as saying "People are sick of the claims of victims. Whatever minority groups want these days...