Word: sicklied
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Blessed Mother on 18 different occasions. In one of those apparitions, Bernadette was told to dig in the grotto soil and "drink the water." The underground spring she uncovered is believed to have remarkable curative powers. After bathing in the waters or simply praying at the shrine, thousands of sick and handicapped people, an average of two every week, have claimed instant cures for conditions ranging from blindness to cancer. Church authorities have recognized only 64 of these incidents as miracles "not explainable by scientific means," after rigorous investigations by panels of medical specialists...
...patronize them. In an even more direct gesture, the Pope visited the mayor of Lourdes and drove through the commercial district before proceeding to the 47-acre sanctuary surrounding the grotto (where vendors are prohibited). Said he: "Is not the city of Lourdes the place par excellence where the sick are really at home, with the same rights as the healthy, with services and facilities fully adapted to them?" Indeed, for all its tacky flash, Lourdes treats with respect the sick who come there hoping to be cured. Wheelchairs wait at the front doors of all 390 hotels, and stretchers...
...been a saver since the fourth grade, I read with interest your article on the growing demand for a consumption tax [July 18]. I am sick and tired of a society that penalizes those like me who are thrifty. Worse, our nation's lawmakers reward my fellow citizens who indulge in big spending frivolities by not slapping them with a consumption tax. Our politicians should face up to the need for restructuring our tax system. It is no wonder that the middle class finds foreign bank accounts more and more appealing...
...shift in pattern was prompted by the death two weeks ago of ABC'S Washington-based anchor, Frank Reynolds. After he went on sick leave in April, ABC'S nightly news ratings dropped from second place to third, but the advantage went mostly to CBS. Those results convinced top officials at NBC that the pairing of the puckish Brokaw and dour Roger Mudd, 55, had little chance of catching on. A peripatetic workaholic, Brokaw has made mild fun of Mudd's reluctance to leave Washington in pursuit of story or spectacle. Though Brokaw continues to regard Mudd...
...credit cards are lost and refuses to cash a check because he has no plastic to back it up. Our hero then cleans out the hotel cash register. Soon after, the family discovers that crotchety old Aunt (Imogene Coca) has passed away in the car. In a Pythonesque sick joke, the family straps the body to the roof and deposits it at the widower's doorstep in Phoenix in the midst of a rainstorm...