Word: sickness
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...case John Paul II gets sick, his personal physician will accompany him on the tour. A team of paramedics and a doctor will join his motorcade, and three hospitals will have volunteer staffs ready to take care of him. For the expected crowd of 500,000, the city hospitals and American Red Cross will man nine first-aid stations on the Common, and 34 extra ambulances will be ready for duty...
...recent album by Rachel Sweet contains a seductive imperative to its youthful purchasers in its title--Fool Around--that we must guard against. Miss Sweet is reportedly only 16 years of age, below the age of consent, and her singing of such licentious lyrics as the above constitutes a sick and depraved attack on decency...
Faculty legislation passed last spring ordered the new policy, which officials said they hope will reduce the number of students who "sick-out" of exams...
...those who feel it is beneath their dignity to give a person a back rub or remove a dirty bedpan find some other name for their profession. Leave the nursing of the sick to nurses...
Hoagland does not burden the reader with a false sense of wonder or an exaggerated sense of adventure. He conveys what he learns as something that a middle-aged man should already know: months of wandering in a hard place make one sick, lonely, itchy and tired. "I was weary," he writes, "of the whole African calliope - that nagging, pulsing musical din that has been reverberating strongly without letup for thousands of years before you arrive and will be continuing without any respite for sickness or fatigue long after you have left the earth...