Word: workmen
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...Others complained of weakness too, though no one seemed to know the cause. Ambulances occasionally arrived to treat people for breathing problems, fainting, seizures, even strokes. Her children were the first to notice when the logic in her sentences began breaking down. By 1992 Polansky was bedridden and on workmen's comp...
Today 59-year-old Polansky is "better but still not 100%." She has used up her time on workmen's comp, which she was awarded for unrelated but disabling ergonomic pain. And she's been terminated by Southwest for failing to return to work within the 36 months allowed for medical leave. Along with half a dozen other employees who have spoken out about their health problems, Polansky is consumed by mounting medical bills, the cost of her lawsuits against the airline and the air-conditioning company that serviced the building, and by Southwest's countercharge that...
...both George Washington and Adams earlier heard it perform. In 1848, when a wagon hauling the 24,500-lb. cornerstone of the Washington Monument broke through a bridge, the Marine Band hurried to the site and, by that day's accounts, played "spirited melodies" to inspire the workmen...
Harvard may also install water detection systems, Lee said, noting that the flooding in Lamont was discovered serendipitously by workmen...
These kids, growing up in the age of digital thermometers, didn't know that they were playing with a poison--one that can be absorbed through vapors or prolonged contact with the skin. They didn't know that the expression "mad as a hatter" refers to the 19th century workmen who used mercury to cure beaver skins for top hats and over time developed nervous twitches, drooled and spoke incoherently...