Word: sickingly
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...murder rate is down a bit in Bridgeport, but other violent crimes aren't. "There's still a subculture of drugs and guns," says state senator Alvin Penn. "We may develop around it, but that subculture hasn't disappeared." The residents are sick of it. At the funeral, grievers bellowed amens when the Rev. Williams asked the assembled politicians to do more to catch criminals and--here the loudest cheers went up--protect witnesses. Many people here have come to believe that cops abandoned B.J., left him to fend for himself in the same community where the man he would...
...risk of developing breast cancer, says Dr. Barbara Weber, professor of medicine and genetics at the University of Pennsylvania Cancer Center in Philadelphia. For example, everyone has heard that 1 in 9 women develop breast cancer. "That doesn't mean you have a 1 in 9 chance of getting sick tomorrow," she notes. It means that over a lifetime of 85 years, 1 out of 9 women will develop breast cancer. But two-thirds of breast-cancer patients die of something else. In fact, heart disease is by far the biggest killer of women in the U.S., followed by lung...
Noah Oppenheim's most recent piece (Opinion, Jan. 20) suggests that "one of the best ways to hunker down is to derive at least some small, sick and twisted satisfaction in the fact that someone has it worse than you." Those who have it "worse," include starving Russians, massacred Kosovan refugees, and adolescent murder victims...
...pain is relative. Every January this campus becomes a crucible of stress and anxiety. For those who have trouble coping, the health travails of the Russian premiere are understandably little solace. And yet, sometimes, one of the best ways to hunker down is to derive at least some small, sick and twisted satisfaction in the fact that someone has it worse than...
...sure things in life is that Bill Parcells teams don't cough up the ball. Yet the 23-10 loss to the Broncos showed us a fumblin, stumblin Jets, dropping the ball, muffing a kickoff, and committing six turnovers to none for the Broncos. Cliche you'll become sick of announcers spouting in the next few days: "You're not going to win very many games in the National Football League turning the ball over six times...