Word: sicking
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...overheated are interest rates, and the Feds, the biggest borrowers in the country, are the most affected. I am going to try the Fed's solution on my slightly overweight dachshund, overfeeding her to get her to stop eating. I only hope she doesn't get sick...
...Cambodian frontier. Most of the refugees had taken shelter from blinding rainstorms in huts constructed of poles and plastic sheets; small blue tents had been set up for dozens of orphans. Field kitchens were preparing high-protein rice gruel for the starving, while field hospitals tended to the sick, some of whom were laid out on mats on the muddy ground. Women were bathing their babies in mud puddles. Though latrines had been dug, most of the refugees were too ill or too weary to use them. "They defecate where they stand or where they sleep," said one UNICEF official...
...scientists were doing in DNA research. I gave them a plain case of diarrhea. I think that everybody at Harvard agreed to fry Al Vellucci in oil or burn him at the stake. My present campaign to control nuclear waste materials is causing the Harvard Corporation to "get sick in the stomach...
...challenger in the race, Thompson announced his support for increased funding for home care for the elderly sick and for increased police protection...
...some day. The city stepped in to do battle, especially once Harvard started evicting tenants from apartment buildings it had brought. And while Harvard usually won (the last tenants are getting ready to leave the most recent battleground, 7 Sumner Road), it was only at a price. In 1974, sick of the city's anger, the University agreed to a set of boundaries. Despite occasional violations, the "Red Line" has quieted some of the furor over actual University growth. But other developments, including Harvard's low mortgage rates for faculty interested in moving to Cambridge, have kept the Harvard-Cambridge...