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Word: sicking (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Jackson made it clear that he intends to keep on fighting for his liberal agenda. He urged his fellow Democrats to remember the poor, the sick, the homeless and all people who suffer. "I challenge you tonight, my friends, let's be bigger and better as a nation and as a party...

Author: By Frank E. Lockwood, SPECIAL TO THE CRIMSON | Title: Jackson Supporters Look to Future | 7/22/1988 | See Source »

...sensibilities. Phrases like "oral sex" and "anal penetration," once startling to read outside hard-covers, are now routinely bounced off satellites with the weather reports. "Making love," one of the sweetest phrases in the language, now suggests a cause of death. Still, the world is sharply divided into the sick and the well, and AIDS can be something of a lark if you are a robust heterosexual college student at a safe-sex lecture where the instructor demonstrates condom use on a cucumber. Only 4% of adult cases are known to have been caused through heterosexual contact. But for homosexual...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Journals of The Plague Years | 7/18/1988 | See Source »

...deterioration and emotional growth are measured. The little tumbler is a reminder that when A.E. Housman wrote "To an Athlete Dying Young," he did not mean this young. At Risk is a one-hankie book and could be a two-hankie movie. Not to worry. No , one ever got sick from crying. Tears, in fact, make good medicine...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Journals of The Plague Years | 7/18/1988 | See Source »

Viet Nam's phased withdrawal reflects political rather than military concerns. Under pressure from Moscow, Viet Nam has been reassessing its foreign commitments, and seems to have determined that top priority must be given to curing its sick economy. As for Kampuchea's own war-exhausted economy, it cannot be revived without large doses of foreign aid, which Viet Nam is in no position to supply and the Soviet Union is increasingly unwilling to offer...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Kampuchea Long Trip Home | 7/11/1988 | See Source »

...Eagle Scout and working hard enough to make first- string point guard on the basketball team. His mother pushed as hard as his father did. Dukakis remembers his father telling his mother when he was about 16, "If this boy doesn't slow down, he's going to get sick...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: A Tale of Two Childhoods | 6/20/1988 | See Source »

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