Word: sickness
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...college students felt that "this is a sick society." Now that figure has fallen...
Since China's leadership holds some sort of record in the annals of gerontocracy, Chou might as well have said, "I am not very well-but not because I am sick." At 76 he is four years younger than Mao. He is known to suffer from chronic neuralgia and rheumatism, perhaps high blood pressure as well, but none of these ailments is considered serious enough to explain his partial eclipse. As though underscoring the political rather than the medical nature of Chou's troubles, one of his aides remarked cryptically, "He is neither...
Coggan is horrified by the spread of pornography and has spoken of Britain as a "sick society" that would become healthy when "it starts living by some rules again. There's a lot to be said for the Ten Commandments." But he has publicly advocated more compassionate treatment of homosexuals, and is far from indifferent to poverty and racial problems in England and abroad. "This insular island must have its attention drawn to the Third World and its needs," Coggan said last week, and as for apartheid, he has publicly stated that it is incompatible with Christian beliefs...
Bernheimer smiles nervously with long triangular teeth stained at the top, and speaks through them with a thick, breathy German accent. When asked how he authenticates such a wide variety of objects, he quickly retorts, "How does a doctor know his patient is sick...
...bombs that killed 23 Dubliners Friday, like the murder of Marcus Foster by the Symbionese Liberation Army which apparently came to a fiery end this weekend, these events seem impossible to justify by rational, humane standards--by any rule that doesn't hold an entire people, including the young, sick or powerless, responsible for another people's suffering...