Word: sicklied
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...USSR. Sick of bread and cheese. Read Soviet anti-imperialist proposals for the Indian Ocean from magazine rack. Eddy smokes last of Great Wall grass. Stand at window and imagine cranberry juice, oatmeal raisin cookies, pizzaburgers, Pack, Exchange addresses. Check connecting schedules. Arrive in Moscow a little before 5 p.m., 10 minutes late...
...quite possible that the collective hysteria that struck nation-wide last weekend indirectly caused these incidents to occur. With countless articles about the issue (prompted by countless meetings prompted by many over-reacting parents), newspapers and television spots put ideas into that many more sick heads. Just as paranoia builds on itself until the subject is immobilized, so the elaborate Halloween precautions may have spurred the very attacks they were meant to protect...
...best of And More possesses an "It's a Wonderful Life" charm identifiable enough to provoke a reader's nodding appreciation. But it Rooney truly believes that [although] I am not sick or dying... right now... I'm determined to remind myself how good
Morrisonville was heavily populated with Bakers, and on soft summer nights young Russell would listen quietly as they gathered on his grandmother's porch to swat flies and swap news. Someone had lost his arm in a thresher accident, some one else had a sick cow, the crops were burning up for lack of rain. A branch of the family in the funeral business was stuck with a monstrously expensive glass coffin. Fortuitously, the area's biggest illegal distiller expired. His widow, impressed with the glass box and its air-tight rubber seal, bought the thing on sight...
...were reporting miracles. One American nun, Frances Randall, a psychology lecturer in Nairobi, says she was cured of a painful broken coccyx bone. Cure-seekers streamed to Lusaka from across Africa, and Milingo healed others in the U.S. and Europe. When he attended an African bishops' conference, the sick congregated outside the hall...