Word: sicking
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Harvard will continue to allow women employees to collect sick pay during absences for pregnancy despite yesterday's Supreme Court ruling that permits employers to refuse to compensate women for maternity leave, a University official said yesterday...
...could feel the room twirling like a dreydl. The spinach knish I had for lunch started coming up my gullet and I thought I would be sick. "Please stop...please...I'll do anything..." My wrists felt like wet won-tons. She was merciless...
...force in Sacramento, Calif., have impotence problems, "usually the men who do the best job in the streets." The physical dangers of the job are almost the least of it. "We expect that," says New York Policeman Ronald De Vito. "But seeing the people we deal with-the sick, the underprivileged children, the old, the maimed-and being eaten up because we cannot help, that is the most dangerous part...
...good, but not always consistent. For example, the lead story in the second issue, about a poisonous chemical that was mistakenly mixed into animal feed in Michigan, was rather loosely written and didn't mention until the fifth paragraph the most important fact: that the chemical was making people sick...
...spark. In a very late scene a telegram summons Belmondo to his uncle's deathbed, and he finally receives the chance to take revenge on the skinflint. He forges himself into the old man's will while his uncle helplessly looks on, eating his heart out but too sick to call for help. Yet even here Malle's directorial listlessness--intentional, no doubt, but unendingly strange--keeps us from enjoying this last, sadistic triumph. What was never more than wizened humor in this film has now completely dried...