Word: sicked
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...perspective on the NIMBY phenomenon. I live in Quincy House, and my bedroom looks directly not the Dewolfe Street construction site, where Harvard Real Estate is building two five-story structures eventually to house University affiliates. Sure, Harvard could use the housing space; but frankly, I'm sick of the noise, and I wish it weren't in my back yard...
...protective garb worked. Physicians who wore the garb did not get the plague, whereas monks who tended the sick without benefit of the armor did. This was because the plague was transmitted by fleas...
...keep waiting for culture shock to hit, for me to become totally frustrated with my Chinese or get completely sick of everything--something. But it hasn't happened...
...Narodichi district, 68 km (42 miles) from the reactor, according to local party official Valentin Budko, "the evacuation of children was finished only on June 7. Little wonder that there are so many sick children in our district, especially those with hyperplasia of the thyroid gland." This and other radiation-related disorders, like leukemia, have allegedly been misreported as more innocent sounding conditions...
...tide had been turning in our favor at the end of regulation time," Ferguson says. "We had been getting more shots on goal at the end of the third period, and I thought one would eventually get through. When Harvard scored the goal in overtime, I felt empty and sick...