Word: sickly
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...story about residents in Nevada and California donating funds to prosecute someone accused of a capital crime [NATION, Feb. 27] makes me sick. By soliciting public funds, the citizens of these states are operating under the theory of "guilty until proved innocent...
...shut the door, Warren! (fatigued. I said). up the knocker, say I'm sick. I'm dead. I've got a People magazine so fat With reminiscent slush and self-congrat That I could barely lift it off the stoop. (Not from my door--I stole it off the some dupe) It seems this month the rag is ten years old; Too bad. I hoped that they were soon to fold. Their editer says their style is really new; They feature People, not people like...
...Joseph takes advantage of none of these benefits, with the exception of the free bin. He sleeps in an abandoned house or in the Berkeley hills, and he doesn't get sick. And, of course, Joseph has to eat. One night I asked him where he ate if he didn't eat at the food project meal. Some of the more genteel street people prefer "scarfing" or "vulching" (an invented verb form of "vulture"), which consists of waiting inconspicuously in a restaurant until a customer finishes and then beating the busboy to the plates of leftovers. But this method doesn...
...evenings she sometimes catches a movie with a girlfriend, but mostly she watches TV in her cramped apartment. Often she calls in sick. Observes a neighbor: "I have met many like her. They live in a political no man's land between loyalty and dissidence...
Jackson will probably play. The flu isn't crippling and, if worse comes to worst, he will play sick...