Word: sicked
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Javits denounced the ads as "ghoulish," but surveys showed that his age and illness did influence voters. Said Businessman Marshall Merritt as he left the polls in Manhattan: "Javits is too old and sick for the job. The Senate shouldn't be a club for superannuated public servants." In Washington, Javits vowed to take on D'Amato again in November, as the candidate of New York's small Liberal Party. Said Javits of the coming campaign: "I assure you that it will be vigorous...
...very Kafka-like situation in which some people, although they are journalists, have come to the conclusion that the worst thing you can do is publish information. It sounds mad, but it's not. It's one of the symptoms of a society that's got sick," he says...
...Good evening ladies and gentleman, this is my bag, you can take it or leave it...I just flew in from Los Angeles and got air sick. Trouble was, nobody noticed...Can you guess where I buy my clothes? Sacks Fifth Avenue...I used to wear a vacuum cleaner bag, but that sucked...And now for a song. 'He ain't heavy, he's my baggie...
...Meade describes Blavatsky, she was a gallant figure, cheerfully aware of skidding toward disaster, always ready with a bizarre scheme to rescue herself and her bemused followers. Toward the end, in the 1880s, matters seemed hope less. She was living in exile in Germany, fat, sick, impoverished, deserted by the faithful and under attack for fakery by the Society for Psychical Research. The reader feels like cheering when she turns up a few months later in London, outrageous as ever, leaking cosmological eye wash with every wheeze, as the head of a large and adoring band of occultists...
...will give the word when he feels the show is ready. I am waiting for the courier to arrive." There was also much talk about friction between Merrick and Champion. Yet one first-nighter said, "People around the show wanted Merrick to replace Champion. They felt, without knowing how sick he really was, that Gower was just not up to it. But Merrick stuck...