Word: sicking
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...know, the food at the Washington University cafeteria is pretty bad," said my friend Jeff. "The mystery meat is usually ok, but we seem to have fish about four times a week. Good thing we can't have seconds, or we'd all get sick...
...crusaders have also declared war on public health officials for not adopting stringent anti-AIDS measures such as mandatory testing and emergency quarantine. "AIDS is the No. 1 underground issue of our time," says Paul Weyrich, president of the Free Congress Research and Education Foundation. "We have a sick public health community that has been frankly intimidated by the homosexual lobby." Richard Viguerie, a New Right fund raiser, calls AIDS the "first politically protected disease in the history of mankind...
...baggage carts from leased offices two blocks away. The courtroom is cluttered with 4-ft. by 5-ft. symptom boards, outlining alleged dioxin-related plaintiff ills ranging from headaches and high blood pressure to depression and decreased sexual desire. Carr concedes that "none of my clients is falling down sick." But the core of his case concerns possible future cancer developing from dioxin exposure in the 1979 spill...
These are small things, to be sure, and not a single sick or hungry child will feel better because the Millennium Club opens its doors to women. On the other hand, is life not made up of small things? Lots and lots of small things? And isn't there considerable truth in that old banality of Edmund Burke's about the only thing necessary for the triumph of evil being for good men to do nothing (he presumably meant good people or good individuals, but never mind -- the creation of aphorisms was simpler in Burke...
...battle with substance abuse was fought more than a decade ago, and she made sure that the cure was contagious. "Sometimes," she says, "I'm almost sorry for people who haven't been alcoholic, because I know things that a person who's never been sick doesn't know." In 1982 a clinic was established in her name, and she offers a series of case histories of the famous and the obscure who entered the place as emotional basket cases and emerged as feisty, drug-free graduates. There are no miracles here, but there is a collective refusal to succumb...