Word: sicklied
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...write his statement -- the four months of separation, the isolation, the force- feeding. But he said he didn't see anything wrong with his statement. He really didn't want to deal with social issues any more because he didn't have the strength for them. He felt sick, tired, and all he wanted was to do scientific work and be with...
others. And I felt sick -- not in my mind, but actually sick: my head spun, my heart contracted, my nails turned blue...
...waiting on his gray mare. The colt's body is rigid, and he lets out the kind of snorts that make a cowboy take a deep seat on frosty mornings. "A horse has a mind," Rays says, watching the colt. "He gets scared and bold, sure and unsure, sick and well. He says, 'Maybe. I don't know. All right . . .' and too often we don't listen." Then, with one rein, Ray pulls his mare's head around until her nose touches his knee. He rubs her forehead, a gesture that has become a trademark of Hunt clinics. "She knows...
Drug addicts are sick people who need treatment. With that statement there is hardly any quarrel. But what kind of treatment, and who will provide it? The answer to the second question, at least, is only too clear: nobody is providing enough treatment to come near meeting the demand, let alone the need...
...officials replied that Cortez had acted in accordance with well-known and accepted DEA practices. They bitterly pointed out that none of the eleven officers had yet been arrested. Above all, they found Mexico's continuing show of defensiveness offensive. Said one Administration official: "We're getting pretty sick and tired of the way the Mexicans are acting...