Word: sicklied
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...have been increasingly vocal in expressing their misgivings about the wisdom of the hunger strike. Father Denis Paul, a chaplain at Maze Prison, has called on the I.R.A. to end the fasts. The Most Rev. Cahal Daly, Bishop of Ardagh and Clonmacnoise in the Irish Republic, has condemned the "sick charade of guns and volleys fired over dead bodies at funerals." After two young Protestant police officers were killed last week by an I.R.A. land mine, Tomás Cardinal O'Fiaich, the Primate of All Ireland, declared: "This act must be called by its proper name of murder...
...limited to anatomy. It lets doctors see an organ's shape and form, but cannot tell how it is functioning. PET (for positron emission tomography) allows the physician to examine the brain and body in ways never before possible, providing metabolic portraits, and revealing the rate at which sick and healthy tissues consume biochemicals...
...Time, as in Ambler's 17 other novels, it is finally not so much the plot that grips the attention, superbly handled though it is, but the characters, all of them human and vulnerable: the flawed journalist, the fearful broker, his not quite ice-cool daughter, the sick sheik, even the attendant thugs, brass hats, cops and spies. No one except perhaps Graham Greene knows or describes his atmosphere or terrain as meticulously as Ambler. It encompasses the topography of fear. -By Michael Demarest
Figuring that indoor meetings were dangerous, Mompesson moved Sunday worship into a nearby field. When pious townspeople gathered to pray for deliverance, they stood at some distance from each other. The rector and a Nonconformist minister were the only visitors to console the sick, grieving and terrified residents...
...most Americans, Labor Day is a time to relax and reflect upon the hard-won rights gained by workers in decades past: the 40-hour week, paid vacations and sick leave, to name a few. But while millions pause next Monday to enjoy backyard barbecues or walks on the beach, a silent, almost invisible labor force will toil on without a break. In steamy sweatshops, scorched fields and cramped kitchens across the U.S., these underground workers will labor long hours for low pay under conditions that seem out of the pages of Charles Dickens...