Word: sicklied
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...problem is that of overcoming a tremendous fear. Gay people--your friends--are made to fear that they are sick, or sinful. They fear losing their jobs if they are found out. They fear that they must be lonely, unhappy and abused. They fear that they will be rejected by those who are closest to them...
...bright little guy, you catch things other people miss altogether. You look out of those eyes, and what do you see? A sick world... A chaotic world, spastic, anarchic, deity-deficient. People tell you you've got a future, but the only future you can count on starts six feet under...
...organ had grown so bloated by midweek that there was a possibility it could burst in a fatal hemorrhage. The terse clinical diagnosis of New York Hospital's Dr. Benjamin Kean, who flew to Cairo on Wednesday to take part in the surgery: "He is not just sick, but very sick...
...showed the direction of the Tory government: for the first time since the inception of the British welfare state after World War II, a wide range of social benefits were "de-indexed," or uncoupled from the rate of inflation. Prescription drug prices for many Britons were more than doubled. Sick pay and unemployment compensation were declared taxable income...
...chaos was created by an emotional overreaction on both sides of what should have been a readily resolvable dispute. Its origins dated back to last December, when negotiations on a wage package dawdled and firemen protested for twelve days in a work slowdown, either by calling in sick or refusing to work overtime. The city reacted to the slowdown by firing 42 of the men who disobeyed orders to work beyond their scheduled hours...