Word: sicking
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Columbia demonstrations, by the selection of a candidate for the Democratic nomination for President who was neither the choice of the people nor the winner of the primaries, by the credibility gap of the President, and finally by the correctness of the Black judgment of America that it is sick with Racism. Too much has happened and continues to happen which undermines the confidence one may have formerly had for the legitimate authorities in this nation. Circumstances have changed since John Kennedy regularly faced the nation at televised news conferences. The attitude toward the authorities by the young has taken...
Although Cliffies may be worried about their future dates, Harvard men are enthusiastic. One economy-minded Harvard junior said, "Figuring that a mixer costs a dollar, if you meet one Cliffie in nine rides, you're saving money. And if you get sick of riding, there's always Hilles at the end of the line...
...program. Within four weeks, the hyperkinetic Geiger had Tufts' approval and an associate professorship, then obtained funds from the OEO. Says Geiger: "We have known for a long time about the relationships between poverty and health without fully facing up to them. The poor are likelier to be sick. The sick are likelier to be poor. Without intervention, the poor get sicker and the sick get poorer...
...renowned in inner circles as Britain's finest figurative painter; his works have hung in U.S. museums since the early 1950s. His commercial success is a telling comment on just how open-minded the general public has become, for Bacon's material is, to put it simply, sick...
...Special Breed of Men. Norwegian whalers first sailed into the Antarctic in 1904; for years after that, their voyages sounded like something out of Herman Melville. The trip to the whaling grounds took a tedious four weeks. The seas were awesome and the food terrible. Even seasoned sailors were sick much of the time. Once the hunt began, they had to face not only danger from harpooned whales but also the nauseating stench of whale processing. The returns, though, made it all worthwhile. In a good year, Sandefjord's seamen earned more in six months than a landlubber could...