Word: sickingly
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...overwrought January days had passed, rumbled back into the national conversation. Even before the report arrived, lawmakers were surprised by how quickly the mood was changing. They came back to work last week after spending some time at home and getting an earful. Real people, the lawmakers learned, were sick and tired of turning off the TV when the news came on and hearing their kids use "Monica" like a cussword. They kept asking each other how they were supposed to explain to their constituents why the President of the U.S. was allowed to keep his job after admitting...
...when they see and hear one, no matter what David Kendall says. The supporting documents, meanwhile, will be aimed more at the groin. Much of material Starr left out of his report is, as Rep. Chris Cannon of Utah described it, "stuff that makes me blush, makes me sick to my stomach." Is America any keener to see it yet? Not according to a CNN/TIME poll released Friday, in which 67 percent said it was a bad idea to broadcast Clinton's video testimony. Considering the ugly mood on the Hill right now, however, that's one majority that...
...farthest thing from sexually arousing. Reading it will make you sick of sex," Mansfield said...
...more the sick nations grasp the failures of their own leaders, the more they long for some outsider to set things right. Fairly or not, the burden of leadership ultimately falls on the U.S. Clinton ought to be the reassurer of last resort, but he is distracted by the Lewinsky scandal, and many are concerned that his personal stature and moral authority are seeping away. His attention to foreign affairs has always been intermittent but surely diminishes the more time he must spend with his lawyers...
...developed uterine cancer twice as often as those who didn't, and three women died of blood clots probably triggered by the medication. For women who are fighting for their lives, those risks may be O.K., but they're a lot to ask of someone who isn't even sick. What's more, two smaller, European studies of tamoxifen published this summer found no preventive benefits...