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Word: sicklied (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1980-1989
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Soon, this sick young man has brought out an entire bag of groceries (including maraschino cherries, pickled peppers, and peanut butter) which he proceeds to dump on the vagrant, splattering the stage and, occasionally, the front rows of the audience. This central event culminates in a failed attempt to snap a photograph--what the young man describes as a "me picture"--while urinating on the human pile of garbage he has just created...

Author: By Lisa R. Eskow, | Title: A Nite-Light | 3/7/1987 | See Source »

...drugs, I slowly began to turn the young man around. We took long walks in the park, read Emerson in the library, and discussed religion. The latter soon began to fascinate him; he would rap until deep in the night about God and salvation. In the end, I got sick of it and decided it was all a bunch of bull. Terry joined the Anglican Church...

Author: By Rutger Fury, | Title: Carrying the Waite: | 3/7/1987 | See Source »

Laurie E. Gutschmit '87, who received a VCR for Christmas from her parents, says, "They've become a good new way of entertaining. Everyone got sick of TV, so more people are buying VCRs...

Author: By Allison L. Jernow, | Title: Videocassette Recorders Invade Johnny Harvard's Suite | 3/6/1987 | See Source »

PEOPLE ARE pretty gross when they're sick. They get sad and lethargic, and sometimes they vomit on your stuff. This is annoying, so Harvard created the University Health Services in order to take these bothersome people off our hands...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: I Can't Get No Sleep | 3/5/1987 | See Source »

Hardworking and attentive, Anthea Williams, 37, rises early every weekday morning to tend to the spiritual needs of the parishioners of Christ Church in Maidstone, a small town in southeast England. She baptizes babies, conducts funerals, comforts the sick in their homes and in hospital beds, and leads her congregation in prayer in the small, modern brick church. But as a woman, she is forbidden to celebrate the rite of Holy Communion for her flock of 40 parishioners. That central act of worship can be performed only by male clerics in the Church of England, who occasionally neglect even...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Religion: Hour Of Decision for Women Priests | 3/2/1987 | See Source »

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