Word: sickly
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...have been very sick. The cops beat me brutally at a rally called by the democratic youth which had been authorized by Pinochet. You cannot imagine how they hit me, what's more, they shot me in the back which hurt me very badly, causing a blood clot in my kidney. It is very painful on top of all the other internal complications produced by the blows, from which I have not yet recovered...
...Acquaintance is energy. The characters move with a distinct sense of unease, reciting their lines by rote as if they're reading from the script. From the sense of ennui and uncertainty the actors themselves generate, it is difficult to determine whether they lack adequate preparation or are simply sick of reciting the same old lines. When the characters occasionally do interact with each other, the result seems more like children squabbling over marbles than adults bickering over marriage...
Number-three Josy Iselin also dispatched her opponent with ease. The fourth slot, usually occupied by Captain Betsy Howe, was filled by Marty Winnick. With Howe out sick. Winnick won as did numbers five and six to round out the Crimson scoring...
Slogans and placards are the standard equipment for labor protests, but last week some angry Dutch fire fighters got a little more creative. To protest a government proposal for a 3% cut in civil servants' wages, as well as in benefits for the unemployed, aged and sick, 350 off-duty members of the Amsterdam fire brigade journeyed 40 miles to The Hague, where they filled the Binnenhof, Holland's parliamentary complex, with synthetic fire-fighting foam. From the windows above, the ancient square looked as if a severe storm had buried it in 14 feet of snow...
...Crimson extended its lead to 49-41 four minutes into the second half, perpetrating the Warrior zone with several in sick drives and keeping Merrimack All-American Joe Dickson away from the boards...