Word: sicking
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...sick of discussing attendance, and I'msick of discussing furniture," he says. "We shouldspend more time on important, long-range goals.Chocolate milk is really nice and good, but it'san easy thing to win. It's not particularly apressing, all-encompassing issue," he says,referring to the council's successful fight forchocolate milk in the house dining halls...
...celebrated writer named Margaret Flood receives the news that her heart is damaged and her days numbered. This death sentence concentrates her mind wonderfully. She first thinks, naturally, of herself, "a sick woman in her middle years, betrayed by one man, abandoned by another." But as she retreats from the hospital into her aerie of an apartment overlooking Central Park, Margaret moves beyond present distress toward memories of the people who have helped to make her what she has become: a successful, solitary, dying woman...
...either a vaccine, which would keep people from being infected, or a drug, which would help kill or control the AIDS virus. Their work is also devoted to developing tests to catch people who are carrying the virus and determining how many of them will actually get sick...
...these diagnostic tests will be in use quite soon, according to Essex. "We already have some tools to categorize whether people are likely to be sick. It's a question of polishing. Within a year we'll have them tested and polished," he says...
There was a short, Fenway-esque left field wall and a chance to "roof" one on the house deep down the right field line. A small tree was first base, until it got sick and had to be cut down--then the hole where the tree used to be was first base. The corner of the swing-set was second base and the flat rock by the woods was third...