Word: sicked
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...just moments before the plane went down. "Machiko, take care of the kids," Masakatsu Taniguchi wrote to his wife. From Keiichi Matsumoto, there were three words for his two-year-old son: "Tetsuya, become respectable." Former JAL Employee Mariko Shirai, 26, could only scribble: "Scared, scared, scared, help, feel sick, don't want to die." Kazuo Yoshimura offered his wife the simple encouragement "Hang in there." And from Hirotsugu Kawaguchi, there was a 17-sentence letter to his three children that was alternately wistful, sad, instructive and finally philosophical: "I'm grateful for the truly happy life I have...
Hans Joachim Tiedge, 48, a top West German counterintelligence officer, had a drinking problem, and colleagues said he was still depressed over his wife's death three years ago. So no one in his office was surprised last Monday morning when Tiedge called in sick. But he did not respond to phone calls and, on Wednesday, his daughters reported him missing to the police. Even then, Tiedge's employers clung to the possibility that his personal problems might have driven him to suicide. It turned out to be wishful thinking. Last Friday at 10:25 a.m., under the heading...
...think my parents ever figured movies would be something I'd succeed at. But they were both very accommodating. My dad would tolerate my movies if I kept my grades up. My mom let me off school at least once a week. I would fake being sick on Mondays so I could cut the movies I'd shot over the weekend. I'd put the thermometer up to the light bulb -- young Elliot does the same thing in E.T. -- and call her in and moan and groan. She'd play along and say, "My God, you're burning...
...continuity of the generations was the bedrock of life. Cambodian- born Tino Cheav, whose husband was killed in the Khmer Rouge reign of terror, weeps as she recounts how some of her six children began staying out late, then one dropped out of high school entirely. "I am sick and cannot rely on my children," she says. "I have no hope...
...Beirut. There a contingent of Iranian Revolutionary Guards, inspired by the Khomeini revolution, sent young Lebanese fanatics out on bottle-smashing sprees in the bars of Beirut, taught them how to rig cars with powerful bombs and prepared them to die for their cause. "Like Khomeini," says Gary Sick, a former National Security Council staffer and an expert on Islamic fundamentalism, "these Shi'ite fundamentalists are rejecting the entire Western system...