Word: sicked
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...have even kissed my first baby," he says wryly. Like Julie, he has developed a knack for graciously self-effacing banter. When a group of elderly Rhode Islanders recently presented him with a pair of cuff links, he grinned: "Mr. Nixon is getting a little sick of my using his cuff links all the time, so thanks very much...
...been made so frighteningly real. Next month, Collins of London is bringing out a far better translation of The First Circle .? The second novel is Cancer Ward, based on the author's own struggle with cancer. It employs the familiar device of the hospital as microcosm of a sick world. Versions are being published in Britain by the Bodley Head and in the U.S. by Farrar, Straus & Giroux and Dial Press. The appearance of these works is a literary event of the first magnitude?and inevitably a major political event as well...
...having a lot of laughs," and their laughter-inane, drunken, forced-explodes and cackles frantically throughout the film. They feed one another stupid jokes, lies and childish games to keep the laughter coming. When it cracks, the bewilderment and despair leak out into the room and turn the laughers sick, self-pitying or snarling...
...Wallace asserted that the two major parties are as close as -"Tweedledum and Tweedledee," since both are "owned by the Eastern Establishment." For 100 years, he said, "both parties have looked down their noses and called us rednecks down here in this part of the country. I'm sick and tired of it, and on November 5, they're goin' to find out there are a lot of rednecks in this country...
Berating the U.S. Supreme Court used to be the fairly exclusive pastime of racists and other right-wing extremists. Now it has become a more popular preoccupation. Many people who think that U.S. society is somehow sick tend to blame the court for much of the rise in crime, the loosening of morals, the racial conflict and the general air of permissiveness. Most of those complaints have welled up in the acrimonious debate in the Senate over Lyndon Johnson's nomination of Abe Fortas to become the nation's 15th Chief Justice. Last week the argument grew angrier...