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Word: sicklied (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1980-1989
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...because of the hyperthyroid nature of the adventures, they have increasingly begun to seem like parodies--gimpy versions of the real thing. Roger Moore, the man with the cement face, is getting on in years; and the idea that his homeland, leading candidate as successor to Turkey as the sick man of Europe, could muster the resources for a typical Bond outing seems, well, a little...

Author: By Jeffrey R. Toobin, | Title: Eye on the Empire | 7/3/1981 | See Source »

Hearns demolished Cuevas, knocking him out in the second round. Leonard beat Duran in their rematch, landing about six punches while the champ got sick to his stomach...

Author: By Nevin I. Shalit, | Title: The Man Sugar Ray Fears | 6/30/1981 | See Source »

...long as Freddie is singing and the monitor is beeping, you know things are all right," says Oakum, "but it's a nightmare." Katherine Jurgill, 20, who keeps an ear tuned to the monitor in her home, shares that anxiety. Jurgill's daughter Katrina, 2, was sick much of last winter. Her second child is due in mid-July. "The Government says we're safe," she remarks, "but it's hard to see steam coming out of the ground on both sides and believe that...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Hottest Town in America | 6/22/1981 | See Source »

...country were dismayed. The rituals of baseball are a mainstay of American life, and some lifelong habits were disrupted by the strike. Said Lester Wilson, an optometrist from East Point, Ga.: "An old man like me, baseball's all I get a kick out of. I'm sick about it. I won't have anything to do at night...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Sport: Baseball Heads for the Showers | 6/22/1981 | See Source »

...Gaddafi's military intervention in support of President Goukouni Oueddei in that country's civil war. This was exactly the sort of move that has enraged Gaddafi's neighbors-especially Egypt's President Anwar Sadat, who has called the Libyan leader "a vicious criminal, 100% sick and possessed of a demon...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Libya: Thriving on Trouble | 6/8/1981 | See Source »

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