Word: sickness
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...first time, how much their children could hurt them; some of the apparent aversion to children is a leftover fear of that palpable, demonstrated, maddening power that the young possess. Today, many new parents start with the lowest expectations about having children - everyone has told them how sick the family is - and then awake in astonished delight to find that the experience is (or can be) wonderful. It is possible that the U.S., with its long history of elaborate delusions about children, is beginning to grow up on the subject. - Lance Morrow
That description of embryonic anarchy applies not to Iran but to its neighbor, Turkey, where the original "sick man" of 19th century politics appears to have suffered a severe relapse. Last week, a high Israeli official warned that "Turkey will fall as Iran did." Though less pessimistically, a State Department official in Washington agreed that it would be tragic for NATO if it were to lose its second biggest land army and its network of intelligence listening posts next to the Soviet Union. There are some ominous similarities between the situation in Turkey and the roots of the trouble...
Captain Kathy Lowry seemed frustrated but not without hope after the match. Since Powell has been in a slump and Laforet had been sick, there is reason to expect improvement, she said...
There are recent examples. Acknowledging the fact that exam period sick-outs" have reached a record high, rising 14 per cent from last year, the ad board has decided to deal with the matter in a rather typical, ne'er compromising, institutional fashion. First, the ad board perceives the problem thusly: how do we lower the number of sickouts? There are three or four options, according to Dean K. Whitla, director of instructional research and evaluation. An asterisk could be attached to the final grade on a student's transcript, indicating the grade was completed with a make-up exam...
...this is true, why should the ad board discourage sick people from petitioning for make-up exams? Assuming--as the administration seems to--that the list of medical excuses has risen because of abusers, is it really fair to inconvenience the truly ill in order to keep the malingerers in line? And why do more and more students feel compelled to duck their exams? These questions have been handled conveniently in the past two weeks, but not adequately...