Word: sickness
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...music you can go on as long as you are able to play or sing. All you have to do is remain popular. The Band's decision to hang it up, at least to hang it up in public, seems even more laudable. The group may well have been sick of the road, as Robertson indicated, but it isn't easy to give up your bread and butter...
...miracle took place five years ago in San Francisco's Old First Presbyterian Church. A destitute old man with trembling hands sat down at the Baldwin piano to give a fund-raising recital for his sick wife's medical expenses. He had not practiced, or owned a piano, for four decades. He had not even looked at the music, Liszt's lengthy, difficult Legendes, in more than half a century. Yet when his ringers touched the keys, there came a burst of musical thunder, exploding octaves and a bass of such power and sonority that the Baldwin...
They say that they like to come to work. They say that the Fire Department has one of the lowest rates of absenteeism of any department in the city and that they do not even have an allotted number of sick days each year like most of the other departments because they do not want them, since they only encourage workers to take days off, workers who have not missed a day of work in years. They would rather have some other benefit instead...
...people in the city come out. Lt. O'Donoghue said that if he goes home and tells his wife that he had a terrible night, she will go look at the calendar and say, "Well, what did you expect? There's a full moon. You should have called in sick...
...surrounding Arab world helped, ironically, to establish, to strengthen and to integrate Israel as one community. But peace has become an imperative need, precisely for those Zionists whose vision consists, not of a miraculous messianic formula, but of a slow painful therapy for a very old and very sick nation...