Word: sicken
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Your Feb. 16 article "Sermon on the Air" is enough to sicken anybody familiar with the modern radio-TV method of doing "good work" while enriching the sponsor. It serves notice that Ralph Edwards and his kind will continue until they have successfully catalogued, price-tagged, and exploited every human emotion...
...first, all-out war on China. Besides emasculating the United States' other military positions, this plan would consume bushels of money and hordes of men in an invasion which, against the numbers and modern equipment of the Chinese, would be fruitiness. In the battle's midst, the public would sicken at the drain of blood and dollars, and the campaign, if not already shattered by a Russian advance elsewhere, would grind to a farcical halt...
...could be used against domestic animals and growing crops as well as against people. But the booklet points out that nearly all infectious diseases can be prevented or cured. BW, it says, "is a special weapon for use against special targets. No kind of biological warfare could kill or sicken every person in a large area or city...
...slaughter of almost half a million Jews in one year; the fantastic desperation which made less than a thousand ill-armed, undernourished Jews stand up against three times their number of German troops with tanks and flamethrowers in the last days of the extermination-these contain emotion enough to sicken the reader of a novel...
Said General Douglas MacArthur of Derevyanko's walkout: "I can well understand the reluctance of the Soviet member to listen to so gruesome and savage a story in all its harrowing barbarity. It would well chill and sicken even a hardened old soldier...