Word: sicklied
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...nosed Smith & Wesson that I had strapped on my back and a grenade I carried in my coat pocket. I was determined not to be captured alive. The immigration official would be my first target. I looked squarely at him and said: "I like this side better. I am sick and tired of what is happening in Iran, and of so-called officials who believe they have supreme power...
...nearly two-thirds of them did not have surgery. Among the procedures frequently deemed unnecessary: bunion removal, hysterectomies, prostate surgery and knee operations. Judging by the experience of one union's health fund, every $1 spent for fees and administrative expenses in the program should save $2.63 in sick pay and hospital costs. Says McCarthy: "Every time a person was referred for a second opinion, the sponsoring fund saved...
King told the state legislature that he wants nearly a 7-per-cent hike in the state budget. Aid to local communities will go up less than 4 per cent, though--a figure one city official called a "sick joke," considering the 15 per cent dent Proposition 2 1/2 will put in tax revenues next year...
...through the morning, Sick relayed the bad news to Carter, which was that there was no news about takeoffs in Tehran. He called him away from coffee with the Reagans in the Blue Room, rang him as Carter and Reagan rode together to the Capitol in the black presidential limousine, reached him again at a phone in the Capitol Rotunda. During Reagan's Inaugural speech, Carter briefly closed his red-rimmed eyes, a moment caught by television cameras. He had been praying for the hostages, he later told aides, who had wondered if he had fallen asleep...
Carter and Mondale were heading for Andrews Air Force Base in a limousine when Sick told them that the Americans had made a "safe departure." The two highest officials of the just-retired Administration looked at each other in relief as tears trickled down their cheeks. In what was meant as a farewell review of troops at Andrews, Carter listened to his final 21-gun salute, then warmly embraced Anita Schaefer, wife of the senior military officer among the hostages, Air Force Colonel Thomas E. Schaefer. "Mr. President, I hope some day you'll meet my husband," she said...