Word: sickness
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...effort that went into Goodbar was exhausting. "We all got so sick of me, day after day," Keaton remembers. A residue of Theresa stayed with Keaton after each day's shooting. "The parts where I had to be bitchy were hard to dismiss. I would go home feeling really rotten...
...problem is to devise a system that differentiates between students who are malingering and those who are really sick, which UHS physicians say they are reluctant to try to do on their own. No one has any concrete proposals yet for a policy that will take the weight off UHS, but chances are they will--before the January exam period...
Students may not agree with Fox that everyone who gets a medical excuse is really sick. Last spring, a new phrase entered undergraduate vocabulary: "punting," or postponing an exam until the make-up date, in the hope they will do better if they take it at a time when they don't have to worry about other courses...
Only after Bruce's death did popular wisdom recognize the importance of what he had been doing. Before that time, newspapers had often dismissed him as "dirty Lenny" the "sick comedian." But a generation that never really knew him came, in the late '60s, to view him as a great parodist and a martyr for freedom of speech. Since then many have picked up on Bruce's observations about the relative obscenity of killing and fucking. The bit has become cliche...
...staff of four other nuns of the Third Order of St. Francis, plus two registered nurses and two practical nurses, contrasted the present scene with what she had found on arrival in 1945: then all 60 of the hospital's beds were filled by patients who were very sick, not only from active leprosy and its complications but also from tuberculosis and kidney diseases. But even at that time, she said, there had been, naturally, a vast improvement in conditions and in nursing and medical care over what Father Damien had found when he landed in the colony...