Word: sicklied
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...told you never to speak to me here." Refrain from seeking romance anywhere you spend more than 10 hours a week. You'll pay dearly for any brief, shining encounter, after rumors fly and even you become sick of seeing yourselves together...
Second, more subliminally, there lies embedded within the semantics of the world the awful truth that there is something old and decaying, something like an aging seductress sagged beyond appeal, something grandmother-like, in the whole sick thing called rock 'n' roll...
After the defeat, Brock was as bitter as his boss, lashing out at Bush's alleged distortions of the Dole record. "We're sick to the gills with this kind of tactic," said Brock. "We don't have to wallow in the mud with them to answer their charges." (In fact, the attacks were not so much untrue as they were cheap: Dole has indeed waffled about whether some new revenues might be necessary to tackle the deficit issue. But so at times has Bush.) Behind the scenes, Dole accused his minions of losing the contest for him. "When things...
...shopping for a house, that they are walking into a trap. Who is going to protect young families, they wonder, from an economic system that is eroding their living standards? Or a health system that promises at least partial care for the elderly but guarantees nothing for families with sick children? Or a political system that allows communities to outlaw residents under 19 to ensure peace and quiet -- and reduce school taxes at the same time? Or a Social Security system that seems to assure only that the young will never draw out anything like the amount they are required...
...Says Sociologist Bernice Neugarten of Northwestern University: "Even in the very oldest group, those above 85, more than one-third report no limitation due to health." Declares Dr. Richard Besdine, director of the aging center at the University of Connecticut: "Aging doesn't necessarily mean a life that is sick, senile, sexless, spent or sessile...