Word: sicklied
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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ABOUT this time of year, I'd really like to slam my door shut, hang out my "Do Not Disturb" sign and just hide, because there are so many things that I am so incredibly sick...
...things I'm sick of have nothing to do with the environment, tabloid TV, the government or all those other Big Issues. In fact, I'm sick of big issues, and I'm even more sick of the people who talk about them. The biggest issue in my life is that I'll be graduating in just two months, which means I probably will not have enough time to enact my shaving cream plan against all those people I'm sick...
...sick of it. I'm just really sick of people who don't get the joke. Any joke. And since I don't think I'm ever going to have the courage to walk up to these various oh-so-sincere types and spray shaving cream on their faces, here are some of the people I'd like...
THERE are also various forms of rudeness that I have noticed in greater abundance at Harvard than elsewhere that I would like to correct. I mean, I am really sick of the way people always tend to get into endless conversations while standing in the middle of an entrance, not bothering to notice that 22 people are trying...
Nothing happens. The guards, however, improve living conditions for Anderson and the others, apparently in fear they might fall sick and die like Buckley. "Christmas in July" brings dinner of Swiss steak, vegetables and fruit, medical checkups by a kidnaped Lebanese Jewish doctor, and the chance to start worshiping together. Anderson, once a lapsed Catholic whose faith now grows stronger by the day, wheedles permission from Hajj to make his confession to Father Jenco. Later, all the hostages are allowed to hold daily services in their "Church of the Locked Door." They celebrate Communion with scraps of Arabic bread. Anderson...