Word: sicklied
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...with only three days to go before the vote, Bush had little momentum. Dole had picked up Alexander Haig's endorsement. (When a Bush aide later read him a Haig quote saying "I did all the damage I could," Bush stared out a window and muttered, "That's sick.") That Saturday morning, Atwater told Bush he was dead even in the polls and that only the "Straddle" ad would put him over the top. Bush looked over at pollster Bob Teeter and said, "I thought you said I was 5 or 6 up!" Teeter shrugged. New Hampshire Governor John Sununu...
...silently by during the Holocaust to escape the blame of history. It is a cowardly retreat to a position of moral comfort--where it is easy to believe that the Holocaust was the creation of a single madman and his henchmen. The Holocaust was more than the sick dream of a deranged dictator--it was the cheap, dark side of collective human nature unleashed...
...said she thought the drinking incident was "a rumor blown way out of proportion." She said, "[The woman] wasn't as sick as everyone thought...
...dare to express their feelings in street poetry whose melodic line is closer to Verdi's than to Bon Jovi's. In his new off-Broadway play Shanley goes further, announcing that these days it is the women who have aerobicized their hearts and the men who are love-sick. Shanley knows that men are the last dying breed of romantics. Of course: he's Irish American...
...public health measure, and the initiative is peppered with references to animal health, as if that were its primary goal. Of course, all farmers have a vested interest in keeping their animals in good shape. Nor do government inspectors take a kindly view of farmers who try to sell sick animals for public consumption. The health provisions of the bill are redundant--a smokescreen for the introduction of vague regulations calling for "sufficient" or "adequate" environmental conditions and "humane treatment" and the threat of $1000 fines...