Word: sicking
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Shouted another man at a gang of teen-agers who had looted a drugstore: "If my mother gets sick in the night and needs her nitroglycerin, where am I gonna go? Maybe you don't care, but where am I supposed to buy my pills?" Next morning, a young woman walked along Third Avenue, desperately looking for any food store that might be open and unlooted. "I'm trying to buy some bread," she said. "I can't find none...
Youthful criminals prey on the most defenseless victims. The very young, the old, the lame, sick and blind are slugged, slashed and shot. They have retreated with broken limbs and emotional scars behind triple-locked doors. Many never venture out at night; some do not even risk the streets during the day. In confinement, their anguish is not heard. Often poor and not well educated, they do not know where to turn or how to complain...
...sophisticated adult farce. The plot revolves around two middle-aged sisters and their families in suburban Round Hill, Conn. Mary Campbell (Cathryn Damon) struggles to stay afloat in the middle class. Her husband (Richard Mulligan) is impotent; her younger son would like to be her daughter. "He's sick!" rages the husband. "So am I," says Mary. "He looks better in that dress than...
Joggers make me sick. There are plenty of them around here. They run past me with supercilious smirks on their red faces. What are they trying to prove? I hope they all drown in their own sweat...
...paper-shuffling marathon has had telling effect. Conceding that the IBM case "wears people out," Justice Department Lead Counsel Raymond Carlson recently announced he would retire this fall (Katzenbach, too, admits he is "sick to death of this," and is retiring in four years). A new federal team, the third on the case, will cross-examine IBM witnesses. The Government wants to take 200 to 300 new depositions, in part to acquaint new prosecutors with details of the case. Two weeks ago, a youthful Government attorney asked such confusing questions of a friendly witness that Judge Edelstein, amid snickering from...