Word: sicking
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Tycoon Henry Flagler and reputedly the country's richest woman. An alcoholic who may have been addicted to morphine, Flagler died less than a year later. Flagler's relatives suspected foul play, but Brenner argues persuasively that the only certainty is that Bingham was "dangerously irresponsible toward a very sick woman...
...thing is so obviously sick we feel sorry for somebody who would do anything like it," said one Cambridge religious leader who wished not to be identified...
...There are different kinds of sick people, and these sick people are into technology," he added. "That's scary...
...them said, "Are you up for this?" And I said, "No. I'm not." So I called my agent, who at that time was a very powerful agent, and he got me in because it was already being cast, and they sent an assistant. I thought, "I'm sick of being turned down by people who don't really have any artistic sense at all. I would rather be turned down by the director or at least by the regular casting people, never mind the assistant." So I had nowhere else to go, so I called Melanie [Griffith, the star...
...aspect of Jackson's populism is not imitated by others -- certainly not by Gephardt with his xenophobic pitch. Jackson can establish emotional ties with the troubled, with dispossessed farmers, striking workers, the sick and the elderly. This empathy with white misfortune was the surprise in Iowa, where his flamboyant gentleness disarmed farmers and won improbable allies. More than any other candidate, he sends people away from his speeches happy, proud that they are somebody...