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Word: sicked (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1980-1989
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...divisive element that could tear apart the very spirit of our representative system. I am warning them today: I will fight them every step of the way if they try to dictate their moral convictions to all Americans in the name of conservatism." Said Goldwater: "I'm frankly sick and tired of the political preachers across this country telling me as a citizen that if I want to be a moral person I must believe in A, B, C and D. Just who do they think they...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Pulpit Bullies | 9/28/1981 | See Source »

...Poles are becoming increasingly angered by the unending struggle for food that dominates their lives. Snapped one middle-aged woman waiting outside a Warsaw fish market last week: "I am sick of talking about these lines. That is all people do. When is somebody going to do something about them...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Fed Up with the Food Fight | 9/28/1981 | See Source »

...Jack Daniels is flowing a little less freely in the quadrangle between Strauss and Matthews; President Horner has offered her counsel on the subject of industrial sandwich condiments; seven Rocky Horror Picture Show refugees have shouted "Define very sick!" to the image of Ryan O'Neal in a dimly lit Science Center lecture hall; a band called "Hand to Mouth" has played its last notes to a sweaty crowd of strangers in Memorial Hall; and four faculty discussions, two Yard concerts, a brunch, a talent show, a square dance, a peripatetic performance, and an ice cream bash have...

Author: By Michael W. Miller, | Title: Welcome to Camp Harvard | 9/24/1981 | See Source »

...WINDS are changing; the bloom is fading from false mandates," labor chieftain Lane Kirkland said Saturday. And the size of his audience lent credence to his words--close to 300,000 trade unionists were crowded onto the Mall in our nation's capital to say they were sick already of President Reagan's economic policies...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Solidarity Forever | 9/22/1981 | See Source »

...sudden, should sick cat jokes prove so appealing? For one thing, since the triumph of Poland's Solidarity union movement, Polish jokes are out. For another, many people are being made aware of long-hidden resentment of the pampered pets and their golden-eyed contempt toward the humans privileged to support them. Pop Psychologist Joyce Brothers regards ailurophobia, at least in its literary form, as a harmless put-on. "If you get upset at this," she says, "you have too much emotional involvement in your pet." Harvey Mindess, an authority on the psychology of humor, sniffs: "101 Uses proves...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Living: A Comeuppance for Cats | 9/21/1981 | See Source »

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