Word: sicking
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...have to have not only protest but alternatives, at every level of politics," Bond said. "It's going to take everyone that can be enlisted, everyone that's sick of the politics of today--the politics that has kept us looking over our shoulders instead of at the road ahead." He spoke of organizing people at the local level, on campuses and in communities, of mobilizing old forms of political power and looking for new ones...
...anger by what the soldiers were doing with their tear gas and clubs. At one point, I started screaming, nearly hysterical, at the soldiers to stop what they were doing. I wanted to rip off my press badge and join the demonstrators, but I didn't. I felt sick and useless, watching and not acting. I did not know why I could not act. It was probably fear. I thought, and then I realized that I was coming face-to-face for the first time with some of the same conflicts that my friends were feeling, conflicts I had been...
...vapid pick-up, a sick-sweet Bailey's sundae, and a frantically joyful party are not subtle devices; but they convey Waletzky's theme--aimlessness and Sunday-afternoon ennui--without themselves being aimless or boring. Sally is the aimless one. She has abandoned her commitment, and though that happens to be an East Cambridge rent project, it could as easily have been politics, creativity, or just another person...
Most of Boston's hippies live in apartments on the Hill or in the South End. The Hill is also the home of upper-class proper Bostonians, but the two groups live together with little friction, Avery said. "It goes in cycles. Sure they get sick of us sometimes [like last summer], but we appease them...
...Dwight L. Wilbur offered some sobering estimates of the annual take from the domestic variety. He cited the FDA's standard figure of about $1 billion a year but suggested that this covered only interstate quackery. Wilbur estimated that intrastate quackery, immune to federal authority, probably mulets the sick of another $1 billion...