Word: sicklied
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...draped towels in front of a woman giving up her child, or even blindfolded her, so she could not see the baby. In the nursery the infants were marked DNS (do not show) or DNP (do not publish the mother's name). Says Rappaport: "Adoption was considered a really sick process...
Right to Die. For the first time, the court will delve into the murky questions surrounding the hopelessly sick when they consider the case of Nancy Cruzan, a comatose patient in a Missouri hospital. The high bench is being asked to decide whether there is a constitutional right of privacy broad enough to permit her parents to request the withdrawal of feeding tubes so that she can die with dignity...
...eyes disappearing into puffy cheeks, a cervical collar ever at his neck, Marcos insisted he was too sick to travel to New York City for arraignment on charges of racketeering and real estate fraud. Still, he argued he was up to a trip to the Philippines, ready to win back his kingdom in MacArthurian style. Hawaii, Marcos proclaimed, was only his Elba. Everyone else knew it was St. Helena...
...cinemas, free tickets are distributed for Baise Uprising, a new film extolling Deng's early military career, but even those who attend -- and most of the theaters are half empty -- talk through the movie or read. At work, employees protest by increasing their sick leave and slowing their production. At school, the results of an essay competition glorifying the army's role in Tiananmen are supposed to have been made public weeks ago. Perhaps too many entries reflect the view of an eleven-year-old girl whose grandparents I meet. Her short, three-page paper, reflecting the unpopularity of China...
...main reason for the University's inability to fulfill its plans is inexcusable. Arturo Morales-Carrion, perhaps the most prolific Puerto Rican historian of his time, was the professor the University wanted all along. But Morales-Carrion had been sick for the past few years and died this summer. Without Morales-Carrion, Gen Ed 154 could no longer exist, the University said...