Word: sicking
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...inherently ill in the 19th century or as psychologically pathological in the 20th, they seem to cavalierly attribute malicious motives to doctors, suggesting they are the vanguard of a sexist society. These doctors, Ehrenreich and English contend, seek out rebelliousness among women and squelch it by spiriting away the sick patient before she can express her protest. The doctors "betrayed the trust" innocent women placed in them. By focusing on the theories and treatments the doctors invented to keep women in their place, the authors evade an analysis of the processes of social repression...
Everybody worries about how big the tax load is. Isn't anybody worrying about how badly the tax load is distributed? Doesn't anyone think an unjust and unsound tax system might be the cause rather than the result of an economy sick with inflation and unemployment...
...conviction that Washington would do nothing much to stop the slide scrambled to buy back bucks. In chaotic trading on Wednesday, the dollar rose 5% against the Japanese yen, 7% against the West German mark and 7.5% against the Swiss franc. Gold, which speculators buy when the dollar is sick and sell when they think it may recover, fell a startling $23 an ounce by the end of the week...
...after her brother lowered the assessment by $2000 as an act of charity toward the previous owners, whom she says were "in deep financial trouble." She denies asking her brother to change the property's assessment, and says that those who charge the family with conflict-of-interest are "sick...
...Union they isolated it to a man who had been on vacation in Mexico, who was carrying the disease but didn't feel sick. I guess they're looking for the same thing here," he added...