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Word: sicklied (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1980-1989
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...problem never goes away [Oct. 4]. As a retiree on a limited income, I can rarely afford butter, steak, asparagus or roast. While I am using margarine, my taxes are being used in part to pay for butter, which the Federal Government will be giving away. It makes me sick...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters: Oct. 25, 1982 | 10/25/1982 | See Source »

...York is more blunt: "You can't buy a Congressman for $5,000. But you can buy his vote. It's done on a regular basis." This is one reason why Michigan Democrat William Brodhead decided to quit Congress this year. Says he: "I got sick of feeling indebted to PACs. There is no reason they give money except in the expectation of votes...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Running with the PACs | 10/25/1982 | See Source »

Newly installed in the presidential palace, Siles Zuazo told TIME South America Bureau Chief Gavin Scott last week that he includes the sick economy and the cocaine trade among his highest priorities. "We must defend the cultivation of coca," he insists, "since from time immemorial it has been chewed by our people to relieve pain. But we must fight to the death for the repression of drug traffickers who take the leaves and make cocaine." This puts the new President in a delicate position: some military men have quietly warned they will resist any attempt to crush the profitable business...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Bolivia: Civilians Return | 10/25/1982 | See Source »

Saying, "I feel sick to do this, but I would feel sicker come November." Wall said his universes in the machines of running the council is the main reason he would not want to be its chairman...

Author: By Thomas H. Howlett, | Title: J. French Wall Drops Out of Council Race | 10/23/1982 | See Source »

...risen and stood in the center of the room, looking first toward the ocean, then toward the hills. I looked and felt sick Beautiful. There was fire on three sides with only the stretch straight down to the on can still clear. A row of homes on the beach were ablaze and the towering flames reflecting off the water had given the ocean a hellish glow. A blanket of putrid smoke obscured the moon, but the roaring inferno and glaring searchlights of the firefighters lit the coast five miles away. I knew that when the fire finally went...

Author: By Wendy L. Wall, | Title: Trial by Fire | 10/21/1982 | See Source »

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