Word: sicked
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 1980-1989
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...level, possibly because there were no serious influenza outbreaks in 1982. The 1982 infant mortality rate (11.2 per 1,000 live births) was the lowest ever recorded in the nation. Infants are doing better, says NCHS Demographer Kate Prager, because of the "improvement in medical technology in caring for sick newborns...
These people must bear Old Testament burdens, punished not just by life but by the suspicion that they somehow deserve all the troubles heaped upon them. In The Mourners, a sick old man faces eviction from his fifth-floor tenement room. He sits huddled on his floor: "How, in so short a life, could a man do so much wrong?" Advancing years do not bring with them the comforts and support of progeny; there are enough ungrateful daughters here to stock several road companies of King Lear, and sons are equally unfeeling...
...competitors to "open their markets to us as much as we've opened ours to them"; for hawks, to use military might to keep the peace and project American moral authority around the world; for women, to win ratification of the Equal Rights Amendment; for the elderly and sick, to put a lid on hospital costs; for blacks and minorities, to crack down on civil rights violators. Seeking to increase his already strong support among Jewish leaders, Mondale had earlier asserted, contrary to his old boss Carter, that Israeli settlements in the West Bank are legal. Glenn tried...
...could argue that the vapidity is studied, that it serves a greater artistic end, that it underscores Plarr's sense of emptiness and search for identity. But after about 20 minutes, one is hard-pressed to care. Although Plarr goes through the proper noble motions--tending sick peasant children, standing up to the police chief after the hospital is raided and displaying proper filial devotion to his absent father--he nevertheless comes off as a filial playboy. When the police commissioner questions Parr about a "crime of passion," he responds, "Passion? I'm English." Try maladjusted...
...thought beyond the planet; he thought of the stars. His parents were pleased when they understood Joseph was going to study "the most universal thing of all"-- they assumed he meant medicine, healing, reversing injury and pain. But he meant just the opposite: remoteness. He was sick of human adventure. He felt an unknowable warmth and feared it. It had betrayed him and named him Dreyfus...