Word: sicken
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...latest bulletins from the NCDC report that the epidemic has passed its peak. But for disrupted organizations and miserable individuals, statistics are slim comfort. The new flu will still sicken thousands of Americans before it fades away...
...only see a man guillotined but watch his head fall into a basket. To conclude this opening maelstrom of mayhem, Dr. Frankenstein opens the coffin of a dying girl for an operation to remove her beating heart and thus begin his monster. The spectacle is vivid enough to sicken some audiences, but Alan Brien, drama critic of London's Sunday Telegraph, insists that "the sequence is an eyeopener to those who believe the theater cannot match the cinema in projecting images of violence and pain...
...since the day they were born and have met death at every step of the way. They are burdened by debt, unlucky in their attempts to raise chickens or hogs, which are stolen by the government troops or taken as "taxes" by the Viet Cong if they do not sicken and die first...
...shocking sex and drinking habits of the Harvard Male would sicken more gentle hearts. The wild excesses are almost unbelievable, seemingly based upon the days of the Roman Baths or the orgies of the early Britons and ancient Scandinavians...
...ugliest campaigns in our history. The strategy of the Goldwater high command . . . must be to inflame every minority grievance, to stir up the dregs of our national spirit, to make respectable the emotions and prejudices of which we are secretly ashamed. This will be a campaign to sicken decent and thoughtful people, and the bitterness it will distill will linger long in our national life." The Chicago Daily News found that "for the zealots," Goldwater "has the invaluable ability to give a latent, fear-born prejudice a patina of respectability and plausibility." To the St. Louis Post-Dispatch, "The Goldwater...