Word: sickness
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...midshipmen were confined to their rooms and dosed with aspirin and cough medicine. Actually, it appears that the U.S. Military Academy at West Point, N.Y., had been hit by an earlier outbreak but this was not publicized. Before the end of January, 200 to 300 cadets were reporting to sick call daily at West Point. That epidemic has passed its peak but has spread across the Hudson to Vassar. Says Dr. Rita Jaeger, health director of the predominantly female college near Poughkeepsie, N.Y.: "Students here go out with men from West Point. Flu is now going across our campus...
...members of CHUL tabled the motion to pass the resolution after Dean Rosovsky told them that passing the resolution by a narrow margin would, in his opinion, be like the rabbi who told a sick acquaintance that his fellow congregation members had voted, six to four, to wish him a speedy recovery...
...hear a lot of people have been sick lately, so I've become very interested in the problem of winter disease. In an effort to better understand all these different sicknesses going around under the general rubric of "flu," I have decided to try to catch as many different illnesses as possible. Still, I don't think that I've been able to cover the whole spectrum of these maladies--I have yet to experience gut-wrenching stomach aches or muscle stiffness...
...nasties in the giblet-peddling ring? When the villains strap Bujold to the operating table for an appendectomy she needs like a hole in the abdomen, will she survive to put makeup on her scar? Finding out the answers is like having an inoculation: you get a little sick, but after that the odds are that you will have nothing at all to do with hospitals...
...Swedish translates, "the whole team was sick today," and sick they were as somebody in every event except the 1000 was affected to some degree by a pervasive flu ailment...