Word: sicklied
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...Defense Minister Lin Biao: ''Let us not exaggerate the seriousness of this situation. Many people have committed suicide or been killed. But these deaths are fewer than those incurred during the war against Japan or the Civil War, or even during natural disasters.'' These callous words made me sick with apprehension for Meiping's safety. At the beginning of my second winter at the detention house, I again developed a bad cold, which turned to bronchitis. My body shook with spasms of coughing, particularly severe during the night when the cell became extremely cold. A few nights later...
...Jules Feiffer became famous in the '50s for what many called the first adult comic strip, Sick Sick Sick (later just Feiffer), which ran in The Village Voice and other papers. But Feiffer knew the superhero comics so well because he loves them as a kid and he wanted to be an artist; he studied these strips from the wrist up. In his late teens he assisted Will Eisner in drawing The Spirit. Here's his evocative iconography of the comics hero...
...gynecologists nip and tuck at the naughty bits of both sexes. Today any doc can turn a pretty dollar getting hair to grow, pounds to melt off or aging private parts to work like new. None of this has much to do with relieving the suffering of the sick and disabled...
...murder than the police had. Then he learned the reason: The UVF boss who allegedly ordered the killing was a police agent. Mark Haddock was a low-level informer when he first alleged to have killed in 1993 by shooting a Catholic woman while she cooked dinner for a sick Protestant friend. Despite having allegedly told police about the killing, he was kept on as an informer and his payments continued to increase...
...Couldn't the Times have called him "former chief"? But let it go. We are too sick to be picky...