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Word: sicked (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1980-1989
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...intricately wielding lip pencils, choruses sympathetically, "Baby, I know just what you mean." A dealer from another casino drops in to visit a friend, who looks at the dealer's name tag and says, "Bernadette? Since when?" The real name is Pamela, but, she says, "I'm sick of it. I tried Edith one time and all I got was 'Oh ho, Edith, have your cake and Edith too, eh?' Mona is best. It sounds sort of untouchable." The false Bernadette says she had dinner with "someone influential, very prominent in town." This is code...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: In Las Vegas: Working Hard for the Money | 8/27/1984 | See Source »

...over," he says. Each PAC asked the money-hungry hopefuls to fill out multiple-choice questionnaires on issues important to the PAC. If a candidate's views measured up, and he looked like a good shot to win, he got the money. Says Severn: "The process made me sick...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Taking an Ax to the PACs | 8/20/1984 | See Source »

...fight this is not through trying to invent new-ideologies, but to recognize that there are a host of good ideas in the party, get people to talk about them, and try to work out some compromises--keeping in mind the party's moral obligation to the sick and the poor. The "family of America" theme that New York Gov. Mario M. Cuomo struck in his speech to the Democratic Convention was the perfect message to carry to the electorate...

Author: By Michael J. Abramowitz, | Title: SummerBooksSummerBooksSum | 8/10/1984 | See Source »

...companies that benefited from insurance money. The indictment painted a picture of a ring that staked out potential targets at night, took oaths of silence and even dumped 14 fire boxes into Boston harbor to delay the reporting of blazes. Declared Boston Fire Captain Matthew Corbett: "These guys were sick...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Boston: Fires for Fired Firemen | 8/6/1984 | See Source »

...again. Whatever it is that allows mothers to lift automobiles to save their babies launched him nearly 2 ft. beyond the record. "But it's impossible. I can't believe it," he said, sliding to his knees. "It's madness, I tell you. I'm going to be sick...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Olympics: No Limit to What He Can Do | 7/30/1984 | See Source »

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