Word: sicklied
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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They stumble along on dusty dirt paths. Emaciated, frail and ravaged by hunger, they are on a desperate journey for food. Some are blind, a result of vitamin A deficiency, or sick with pellagra, diarrhea, cholera and various starvation-related diseases. Diplomats and relief officials estimate that as many as 150,000 have walked through the desolate bush of northern Mozambique into eastern Zimbabwe in recent months. For every one who has made it to the border, another is believed to have died along...
...caused by the IMF or IMF programs. They are partly the result of past mistakes, partly the result of world recession, partly the result of high interest rates in the industrial countries. The IMF gets the blame. It's like blaming the doctor because the patient is sick...
...Erma Bombeck clearly had its bizarre appeal, but before anything truly lunatic could come of it, Erma quit the paper for good in 1953. She and Bill, by then a struggling high school social studies and American history teacher, had been married four years, and, she says, "I was sick of working. Putting on pantyhose every morning is not just whoopee time. My dream was to putter around the house, learn how to snap beans, put up curtains and bake bread." The young couple adopted Betsy, and Erma, who had learned domesticity as a child, returned to the home...
Wednesdays and Sundays at the Bow and Arrow (on Bow St., just off Mass. Ave.) mean cheap pitchers of cheap beer, quite simply the cheapest place in the neighborhood to kill those brain cells and get really sick. The rest of the week features different specials, though the crowd is a little rougher. The jukebox, which plays horrible heavy metal music, is loud, but liquor comes first, and everyone there is dedicated to its consumption in large quantities...
...ghastly array of anecdotes that could keep a number of kids scared out of their wits about drugs for life. The escalating pressures of stardom, and the unceasing demands of fans and industry moguls to be continually funny, indeed funnier than the last time out, made Belushi a sick wreck. And in the toxic environment of the New York-Los Angeles axis, there was little, apparently, that family or friends could do to make this wreck stop from disintegrating...