Word: sicking
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...Shawn has set off a verbal time bomb, mostly in a series of monologues in which his characters rationalize all sorts of evils, including Hitler's atrocities. "I'm a rather amiable person," he says, "but I believe that our society is not just a little bit sick, but very, very, very sick. That's why I write the things I do about these diseased minds. There's something dangerous about the play in that it shows brutality made intellectually respectable...
...Washington Home, a last stopping place for the sick and the elderly, Diana stopped to chat with about 40 of the wheelchair-bound residents. She patted spotted hands and spoke directly into hard-of-hearing ears. It was old hat to 95-year-old British-born Letitia Whitty: "When I was 6 1/2, my father took me to the streets to see Queen Victoria passing by. I wouldn't wave at that ugly old woman." She did, however, talk animatedly with a pretty young one about English gardens. For nearly an hour, these faltering men and women in the shadow...
...just have been having a hard time with goalies this year. We lost our starting goalie to an ACL in the third game. We had our backup goalie, so she was doing fine, but she got sick last week,” said women’s lacrosse head coach Sarah Nelson. “We knew we had to find somebody...
Technology occasionally does bring genuine improvements. Tetracycline and Thorazine heal the sick. The rotary lawn mower doesn't get stuck on twigs. The VCR makes it possible for working people who are not insomniacs to look at movies that are shown only at 3 a.m. Does anyone remember that you once had to bend over and give a violent turn to a hand crank before a car would start...
...anthems, the 74-year-old Reagan gave credence to the reports of his splendid recuperation. Nonetheless, the ceremony was shortened to 15 minutes so that Reagan, who lost 7 Ibs. in the hospital, could conserve his strength. He needed every bit of it: no sooner was he out of sick bay than he was back in the middle of the long-running battle over the budget...