Word: sicking
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...family? Do you seriously delude yourself into believing that you will be able to get into law school now? Take a deep breath; and run, don't walk, to UHS. Does someone you are close to exhibit these symptoms? Be sympathetic--pinball addiction is a disease, and addicts are sick people--but be firm. Tell them you will leave them for the pre-med down the hall if they don't seek counseling soon. But do something now--tomorrow morning may be too late...
...reason for the great coming-out party, says Carole Stein, a Manhattan-based Christian Dior executive, is that "women are basically sick and tired of looking like men. Clothes have been so ungodly tailored." According to Designer Caulfield, the new look's popularity has a lot to do with the financial side of women's lib. "A working woman can afford to buy herself a $40 camisole, and she will reward herself with one." The look is also a symbol of today's more open sexuality, Caulfield maintains. "When a young woman gets dressed in the morning...
With a couple of the varsity racketeers sick and another half dozen out with academic conflicts, the weakened Crimson called up three J.V. team members, but a shortage of personnel still forced the forfeit of one doubles match...
...have told us all we needed to know. Instead we drove through the drizzle to Teterboro, a town with ten inhabitants, an efficient (as we would discover) police force, and a busy, private-commercial airport with 15,000 employees. That morning, it seemed, all 15,000 had called in sick. Little airplanes squatted in neat rows, roped to the tarmac to brace against the wind. A flag flapped and clanked above us. Nothing stirred on the runway, or in our parking lot, or by the hangars. We hoisted our packs, draped our ponchos over them and set off through what...
...spent in convincing herself-nobody else ever seems to have doubted her -that she is a gifted actress. In 1968, when she auditioned for the original Broadway version of Play It Again, Sam, Allen's comic tribute to Humphrey Bogart, she was, she says with double underlining, "just sick. There were all these other women there to try out for the part, and I was scared to death." And she probably could not have walked on to do her bit-if it wasn't so obvious that Allen was scared to death...