Word: sicked
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...even dream of sleeping late if there's a reserve book simmering on your desk: it will cost you $4.25 a day. Keep it over the weekend and you've bought it. Never, never get sick during exam period: each make-up exam carries a fee of $25. Luckily, the Handbook for Students does offer some hope for relief, if you write to the Registrar four weeks in advance and cancel the exam, you are relieved of your financial obligations. You go scot-free. Unfortunately, you also fail the course...
...multi-millionaires of California's Bohemian Grove--the real rulers of America's industry and military--put him in the presidency. He didn't really want to continue war in Vietnam or get involved in the Chilean counter-revolution, but rather those filthy moneymongers forced him to. Finally, sick of prostituting himself and his country, he resolved to stop being their puppet. As a result, they organized the Watergate scandal to boot him out of office. Nixon reveals all sorts of other things too--his dreams of being Abraham Lincoln, his childhood insecurities, his hatred of Kennedy. And when...
...while, he fretted over not producing the big book that his ability seemed to decree. But writing novels did not interest him, and his curiosity about the world was too sprightly to be harnessed for the long haul. He regularly worried himself sick; hypochondria be came a lifelong pal. As a Cornell student, he was convinced that he had consumption; in his later years he noted: "I have had a frog in my throat for some time now, and of course with me this develops almost instantly into cancer of the larynx, because that...
...direct contrast to the sanity of "Real World" is the psychotic "Diane," Beginning as a love song with the narrator picking up a young girl, the song brings in--almost like a throwaway or sick joke--the horribly nasty line, "But I think I'll just rape you and kill you instead," and then proceeds into a strangely impassioned chorus. To pass off this unsettling song as a sick joke is too easy, and moreover, it would belie the fundamental message of the rest of the album. Rather, this song is both a frightening and frightened recognition of the violence...
...notorious Cité Gutenberg, a collection of ramshackle, barrack-like buildings in the Paris suburb of Nanterre: "When you've got nothing to do and nothing to look forward to, it's a way to hide from reality, just as French kids do. Young North Africans are sick of rejection, unemployment and disrespect. Unless you have a strong character, it's easy to fall into." Studies by France's Social Affairs and Solidarity Ministry indicate, however, that immigrants are no more delinquent than native Frenchmen of equivalent age and social situation...