Word: sicking
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...said, "I'm the homemaker and mother." But she answered questions, some of them rude, with ingenuous spirit. To explicit queries about her weight (140 Ibs. at 5 ft. 4 in.) and dieting, she allowed: "I try to eat just sliced chicken at lunch, but I get sick of it: sometimes I think I'm going to start cackling myself." She tries to avoid snacks and used to work out at Y.M.C.A. "Swim and Slim" classes-exertions that have served more to re distribute her weight than to take it off. She is an enthusiastic amateur dec orator...
...glad to welcome the Marines ashore." As in that case, in 1968 the Seabees of the more than 20 Seabee teams that have operated in the remotest parts of Thailand since 1963 are happy to welcome the Air Commandos aboard. We've treated nearly 50,000 patients at sick call, dug 75 wells, constructed 25 schools, built 125 miles of road with some 30 bridges, and trained 15 counterpart Thai border-patrol police teams in civic action work...
...giving considerable weight to the kind of argument expressed by one Southern lady on the convention floor. She declared: "This is a protest year. We've got to get that protest." She did not mean Negroes or fractious students. The protesters that concern her are people "who are sick and tired of their money going out of their pockets to keep people sitting in front of TV sets...
Such tactics produce mixed reactions. Many a woman considers a visit to Rome a failure without a pinch from a pappagallo. But others are outraged, or at least profess to be. "I'm sick of it," says one American girl. "Some of these Italian men are so puny and pathetic, they have to do something to prove they are men." Many girls have taken to wearing girdles for protection, only to have bottoms painfully bruised by girdlesnappers...
...year and a half old and weighed no more than eight pounds. Its mother was too weak to brush the flies off the body. "This is a children's war," said the Rev. Jack Finucane, one of 100 Holy Ghost Fathers who are caring for the sick and the destitute. "At the moment there's little we can do but pray to God to save some of these little fellows...