Word: sickness
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...took a while, but school officials in Richmond, Va., finally got fed up with teacher absenteeism last week. In studying records for the 1973-74 school year, they found that an average of 40 of the city's 2,000 teachers called in sick each day in the middle of the week; 47 on Fridays and Mondays, and 55 on Mondays after paydays. "There are abuses of the sick-leave policy," charged school board member William Edwards. His proposed solution: Starting next fall two school nurses would make house calls on teachers who are "habitually absent...
...around Boston this summer, you'll have a chance to get sick of the Bicentennial even before it really starts. Right this very minute, people are dialing 338-1975, the number of Boston 200, and listening to a recorded voice telling them all the Bicentennial activities they can rush out and see. There are Bicentennial plays, Bicentennial concerts, Bicentennial exhibits, Bicentennial tours, Bicentennial movies and Bicentennial lectures. Boston 200 has patriotic events to occupy your time right up through December 1976, when the whole thing collapses and we can all forget about who sneezed Two Hundred Years Ago Today...
...Excellency went out to the Yellow Springs Two days ago to Visit the hospitals himself and found them in fine order, he Spoke to every person in the Bunks which pleased the Sick exceedingly...
...Chicago holdup man. "I know the value of life has no weight. These younger criminals, they're sick. They have no motive for what they're doing...
...waving American flags demonstrated noisily outside. Inside the courtroom, Garrity was hissed as he questioned two R.O.A.R. leaders about their part in a demonstration the week before outside South Boston High School. As the hearing ended, one spectator complained (loud enough for Garrity to hear): "The guy's sick, that's all, sick...