Word: sickened
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...Guinea, said Dr. Gerbrands, is intensely religious, tangled in the mysteries of life and death. Among the Asmat, he explained, death is always the work of an enemy, who may kill a man in battle or sicken him by long-distance magic. Every death weakens the close-knit tribe, and if the dead man was an important personage, the tribe's loss of strength is considered so serious that something must be done about it. A successful head-hunting raid against guilty neighbors restores the injured tribe's prestige and self-respect, but such expeditions are not undertaken...
...dogmatic creed. Against the world of coercion, we affirm the world of choice." He placed the problem within a moral context: "It is right to do these things because peoples are in need of help, and we are able to help them to help themselves; because their children sicken and die while we have the science to save them; because they are illiterate while we have the means of education...
...oxygen and dispose of CO2. But they demand a lot of water to live happily; the Boeing system contains 80 gal lons, weighing more than 600 Ibs. Pilgrim is sure that this prohibitive weight can be reduced drastically, but he has other problems besides. Algae are delicate; they sometimes sicken, turn yellow, and die. They may fall prey to bacteria and other microscopic enemies. They may poison themselves with their own wastes...
...subtitie "or, What You Will" to this play. At any rate, London has turned Tweifth Night into a comedy of errors. Imagine, if you can, a neoionic tempietto on stage right, with a hideous stained-glass dome (this is Orsino's lair; no wonder he says. "The appetite may sicken, and so die."); and, on the left, a two-story pavilion with Victorian gimcrackery and shades that are raised and lowered with annoying frequency (Olivia's summer resort, and last resort). In the center we have a candy-cane flagpole with pennon, and two bathhouses on wheels, with...
...could he? Coves & Cobbles. Blaydon's five years in Dublin end in a vast betrayal. Without a word, devious Dymphna drops him and marries someone else; trusted Mike Groarke not only sells Blaydon out but beats him and sneers, "You amused me when you didn't sicken me." Blaydon cannot even deal with a great omadhaun like Kerruish, who hoodwinks him with ease. When the ever-various Horab Greenbloom sweeps into Ireland, even he loses his sure footing among the slippery coves and cobbles of Dublin...