Word: sicked
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...project, however, soon ran into headwinds from two of Lear's daughters. They are disputing their father's will, saying that the trustees, Auld and Real Estate Developer Milton Weilenmann "brought undue influence" on a sick man to have the new plane completed. The heiresses declare that the risks of the venture are too great for their mother to use their portion of the inheritance...
...Well, the President said there was a malaise in the land-he said the people were sick. The people are sick and tired -of Government. And people want to be proud again. They do not like our country being pushed around. I think they want to believe that the Government believes in them. That they do not have to be wet-nursed by the Government. And they want Government off their backs. And I know-I've got a farm. I farmed at a time when I never heard from the Government. Now you get a 19-page questionnaire...
...every embarrassment experienced by a man whose body has begun the process of betrayal. No one is spared, least of all the author. She recalls her resentment of the illness that disables both her husband and her marriage: "I ache for him but I resent him as well, this sick, sunken man ... The intensity of the anger that hovers here, beneath what I take to be love, is frightening. I understand the wretched banality of such an anger as this . . . yet it shames and appalls...
...schoolmate of his in Los Angeles, and other contemporaries like Willem de Kooning, Robert Motherwell and Mark Rothko in forging the abstract expressionist movement in the late 1940s and early 1950s. In the past decade he returned from his often dreamlike works to representational painting. His explanation: "I got sick and tired of all the purity. I wanted to tell stories...
...unless Professor Snezhnevsky diagnoses it." That theory has proved convenient to the KGB, particularly since Soviet law allows for compulsory commitment by the courts when the accused has been classified as mentally ill. Indeed, the proceeding may be held without the dissident because he is considered too sick to attend. Thus, as Reich says, "dissenting views are pronounced the sick products of sick minds...