Word: sickingly
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...College's policy on sick students seeking treatment for alcohol is, at first glance, quite clear. If a student's condition requires that they be checked into UHS, their name--but not the reason for their treatment--will be released to their senior tutor or assistant dean of freshman...
...this is gradually what happens as Halder finds himself first trying to rationalize euthanasia as a compassionate act toward the sick and deformed, then the bonfire of the books, Krystal Nacht, and in what proves to be the play's most shocking (if somewhat farfetched) moment, Auschwitz. As Halder's rationalizations become increasingly strained and desperate, Hitler assumes a more seductive tone in Halder's mind, and his image is accompanied by popular, catchy drinking songs...
...lessons. Shepard's murder touches on a host of complex and timely issues: intolerance, society's attitudes toward gays and the pressure to conform, the use of violence as a means of confronting one's demons. Jesse Dirkhising's death gives us nothing except the depravity of two sick men. There is no lesson here, no moral of tolerance, no hope to be gleaned in the punishment of the perpetrators. To be somehow equated with these monsters would be a bitter legacy indeed for Matthew Shepard...
Some marchers carried signs. One read, "Greed is a disease and Harvard is a sick institution...
...said that other unions on campus are concerned about a "trickle" of non-union workers who work part-time when union members are sick or on vacation...