Word: sicklied
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...city without sincerity, the Redskins have always been true. All that unites our divided city is the team. No one cares what color the quarterback is, as long as he beats the Cowboys and the Giants. We all throw bagels in Georgetown when we win. We all stay home sick when we lose...
...that I disapprove of the numerous benefit concerts held for the everchanging array of causes of the week, because at least then the musicians are putting their money where their vocal chords are. I'm just sick of everyone bandying about his buffet of attitudes and wearing his artistic angst like some neo-revolutionary red badge of oppression. Because, when you get right down to it, what do wealthy white men know about oppression...
...first grade exits for the day in double file, with six- year-old Tina somewhere in the middle. Slack-armed, she drifts sideways toward her foster mother across the rushing current of her classmates. Her eyes are scrunched up woefully in the universal expression of a sick child seeking consolation from a parent. Her ear aches, she reports. Also, her feet hurt...
...Sweet Oil for the affected ear. She makes an appointment at the clinic for the morning. Then she sets Tina up with a thermometer in her mouth and her homework in front of her. "Come on now," she says, urging a pencil on the child. "You're not that sick...
...make the most of what we have today. You just let the child blossom into your life. Let the joy come out." The doctors said Denise would die of AIDS by Christmas last year, but she has come out of a coma twice. "When they start to get sick, they may just want to lie down," Helen says. She is a 41-year-old black woman, a matriarchal blend of sweetness and strength. "You have to say, 'Let's do patty-cake,' 'Let's sing,' 'Let's kiss on each other a little while.' Let's do all those mushy...