Word: sicked
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...country was indeed sick of the squabbling politicians who had preceded De Gaulle and whom he had witheringly described as the old hacks whose only concern is with "their own little soup pot on their own little fire in their own little corner." The French took a modest pride in De Gaulle's nuclear force de frappe, which presumably gave the nation a voice among the world powers. It even pleased the often xenophobic French that their gold reserves were sufficient to threaten the American dollar. At least the French man in the street relished De Gaulle...
When he was rejected last week by the France he loved, it looked to some like the case of Athens' Aristides the lust, who was ostracized because Athenians were sick and tired of hearing him called "the lust." To others, it was simply a case of a man who has outlived his usefulness...
...wife's job created a job for Cortés. Hidden as he was, he could at last make himself useful, tying strips of esparto grass into bundles that Juliana sold for home weaving. Once he took sick with violent stomach cramps. He described the pain in detail to Juliana, "until she could feel it herself." She then went to the local doctor, told him about the pain as if it were her own and brought the medicine prescribed home to her husband...
Lamont's death, however, caught the Corporation without a nominee. For most of last year, the Corporation limped along at three-Fellow strength, since Fellow William Marbury was sick in Baltimore. Several of the Fellows offered public speculation during the year on what kind of a man the new Fellow would be. Kane said that maybe the Corporation might add a scientist or doctor. Another member said that someone from the West might be good...
Councillors Alfred E. Vellucci and Cornelia B. Wheeler voted present on the resolution. "I cannot vote for any resolution congratulating President Pusey," Vellucci said. "I don't think the police want to be congratulated. They don't like to see these things happen. The police got sick when they were ordered to go there because they knew what would happen...