Word: sicklied
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...American steel industry has long been one of the periodic sick men of U.S. business, along with autos, housing and tires. Most steel plants are badly in need of modernization. Moreover, American firms are losing domestic markets to tough foreign competition. Only two weeks ago, U.S. Steel announced that it was going to court to block imports of low-priced foreign steel...
...This hedgehogness beats at my brain," he says. "I'm sick of feeling the same goddam thrill--I sort of want to fox it, just go out. I'd just like to be a doctor--I'd love to be a politician. Great politicians are great actors, I think: Caesar, Goethe, Gandhi--they're acting, but in the stuff of life...
...type of person who didn't have time to be sick, who was always doing something," Breitbart said. "Every minute of her day was productive and she was more organized than most people," she added...
British music has long been treated like a poor relation in the world's concert halls-the sick man of Europe. German, Italian, French and Russian compositions make up the bulk of the standard repertory. But British music-with a rich tradition stretching from Tudor church composers like William Byrd to innovative moderns like Peter Maxwell Davies-is patronized as a national school, a sort of cultural Toby-jug collection, of interest chiefly to natives and diehard Anglophiles elsewhere...
...Lord in mock prayer with the shivering contestant that maybe this poor, white-trash hick has only a 50-per-cent chance of survival and happiness, "but Lord, that 50 per cent chance is the best goddamned chance he's ever gonna get." But despite a superbly dark, sick ending the play is too predictably structured, the target too easy, and, compared with a truly political vaudeville like Dario Fo's Accidental Death of An Anarchist, it doesn't resonate much...