Word: sicked
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...sorry for not coming last week. I was sick," I announced to the small, dark room where eight-year-old Maritza sat basking in the irregular glow of the television set. Guilt strangled me, because I knew I could, and should, have gone...
...enraged by falsely labeled Union food, boycott hamburger extra-vanganza and venerable vegetables. If you are tired of doing homework, take a break and wait in line for basketball courts. And if you are sick of meeting interesting people, go to final club parties...
...digger, snow-plow operator, police officer and school-crossing guard. He has lived in a trailer ever since his wife left him for a man with better prospects. Smoldering with resentments, he lets routine things slip his mind. "Sometimes you just forget who you are. Especially when you're sick of who you are," he tells his brother Rolfe...
...rising health-care costs, companies are trying to shift more of the burden to employees. Workers, on the other hand, look upon their medical benefits as hard-won rights that have become essential to maintaining their standard of living. Declared picket signs last week: CUTTING OUR HEALTH BENEFITS IS SICK...
...sick idea came to inventor Tom Berquist three years ago during a discussion of why kids enjoy revolting things. Says he: "I think they get more control over their environment. The more the parents scream, the more the kids want the candy." Parents are not too keen on the promotional campaign either. Appearing at radio stations around the country to hand out free samples to fans is the Boogerman: an actor costumed as a 6-ft.-tall, green, slimy . . . Oh, yech...