Word: sickened
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...foul and unpredictable as any in the world, the avalanches of its snow fields and the icefalls of its tumbled glaciers pick off climbers every expedition or so, and the deadly thin air toward its 29,028-ft. summit debilitates and stupefies the mountaineers it does not sicken or cripple. What craziness is this to be serious about...
Hyde then provided some elaboration of what the Republican Convention understood by the platform's reiteration of "traditional family values." Opposition, for example, to palimony, "rewarding a woman with money for living with a man outside of marriage." Opposition to pornography, which "would sicken a gynecologist." But opposition also to school busing for desegregation-"a form of conscription." Opposition to federal housing projects-"but none where you live, Senator Percy...
...memory: "We knew that it was to feed us you had to endure demons and physical labor." But she adds: "What I want from you is for you to tell me that those curses are only common Chinese sayings. That you did not mean to make me sicken at being female...