Word: sicked
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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White people thought, and many still think, that breaking down that bitterness should be simple. Walk around this campus and talk about affirmative action, and plenty of people will tell you that most discrimination here is against whites, not Blacks and that they are sick of it. Probably, they are more tired of being supposed to feel guilty than of worrying about med school admissions; probably, the rhetoric more than the result of affirmative action troubles them. And if that is the case, it is all the sadder, for if Gwaltney's chilling work proves one thing, it's that...
...knew someone else, most likely poor or Black or both, would go in his place. But it was, at least on one level, a decision not of cowardice but of conviction. Fallows did not join the Army because the Army was slaughtering innocents in Vietnam, fighting a sick and evil war that no one with a conscience could support. The same facts that led Fallows to avoid the draft lead many to oppose its revival; his unwillingness to address those issues is the book's chief flaw...
...yards into the grass the big lion lay, flattened out along the ground. His ears were back and his only movement was a slight twitching up and down of his long, black tail. He had turned at bay as soon as he had reached this cover and he was sick with the wound through his full belly, and weakening with the wound from his lungs that brought a thin foamy red to his mouth each time he breathed. His flanks were wet and hot and flies were on the little openings the solid bullets had made in his tawny hide...
When there is a basis in reality for pride, one should be free to acknowledge it without being labeled sick or being made to think his ego has gone berserk...
Several sources said a female student suffered a broken arm at the hands of an intoxicated male student. There were also several reports of students drinking themselves sick, some of whom were apparently treated and released from the emergency room of University Health Services...