Word: sicklied
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Drake, the forlorn letters Hinckley wrote offered insight. "It just seemed like he was a sick white boy looking for someone to love him," she recalls. They reread aloud the note Hinckley wrote to Jodie Foster on the day of the shooting. "There is a definite possibility that I will be killed in my attempt to get Reagan," he scribbled. Glynis Lassiter, 42, a janitor at American University, argued that Hinckley was clearly insane "if he felt he was going to get killed and then he goes ahead and does it anyway." Copelin strongly disagreed. "Look at this," she said...
...infield is for men. Black-leathered motorcycle riders, general hell raisers and frat boys down for a look at the fun all stake out their separate claim Turn One is the "Snake Pit," the motorcycle mecca, Harley Heaven. The bikers get drunk, get crazy, get naked, get sick, and get beat up for the amusement of corporate executives sitting in the luxury $30.000 boxes across the track. Turns Two and Three are slightly less populated but boast a steady level of determined merrymaking...
Like them, most of the crowd seemed more purposeful than defiant. Katherine Wedel, 17, left a New York hospital in her sick-bed smock to join the rally. "To me," she said, "it's important to be here because the money spent on bombs could be spent on finding a cure for Addison's disease," for which Wedel is being treated. Some placards were flip. One beery young man carried a sign that said DON'T BOMB US, WE'RE ALREADY BOMBED and on another youth's poster was the request REAGAN-GIVE...
Invoking blessings on the country, John Paul mentioned the casualties of war, the sick and the bereaved, but, to the disappointment of many Argentines, omitted any direct reference to another category of victims: the desaparecidos. The "disappeared ones," variously estimated to number from 6,000 to 24,000, vanished during the military regime's "dirty war" against left-wing terrorism during the late 1970s. The junta, for its part, had returned at least a few beloved ones, if not desaparecidos, to their families, having released 128 prisoners outright and 116 more on parole in an amnesty honoring the papal...
...visitor called, "a slightly portly gentlemen with walrus mustaches in chesterfield and homburg, with a small black Scotty on a leash. He inquired into our condition and passed the time of day. It was Abbott Lawrence Lowell, president of the University, out for his constitutional and visiting the sick Visiting his sick. That kind of thing, soon enough to go out, still happened...