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Word: sicklied (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1980-1989
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...weary of fighting with White House aides over his budget. In The Thirteenth Man: A Reagan Cabinet Memoir, to be published next year by the Free Press, Bell blasts unidentified "mid-level right-wing staffers at the White House" for a more disturbing characteristic: a proclivity for "sick humor and racist cliches." Examples: references to the late Martin Luther King Jr. as "Martin Lucifer Coon" and comments during discussions about the Middle East that Arabs were "sand niggers...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Washington: Bell Tells A Sorry Story | 11/2/1987 | See Source »

England beckons. In the world's capital of sexual perversion bound up in strict but rarely observed social codes, I hope to find my place mending the sick and undersexed. First stop: Buckingham Palace...

Author: By Rutger Fury, | Title: The Windsor War | 10/31/1987 | See Source »

Fire Fighter Jeff Brand looks like hell. His unshaven face is covered with grime, his eyes are swollen and bloodshot, and his raspy speech is punctuated with third-degree coughs and sniffles. "I'm sick as a dog," he growls. The dense smoke on the fire line in Northern California's Klamath National Forest has cut visibility to a lung-searing 150 ft. It is eclipsing the sun like a primordial fog and slowly choking the solemn line of fire fighters. Brand, 26, from Kentfield, Calif., pauses occasionally on the steep slope to vomit discreetly in the woods. "This...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: A Just War | 10/26/1987 | See Source »

...office, my secretary called in sick, the bottom fell out of the stock market, and my boss gave me a bawling out for screwing up the office baseball pool...

Author: By Rutger Fury, | Title: The Week That Was | 10/24/1987 | See Source »

...first time I tasted it I thought I was going to be sick. The bitter black liquid was worse than the occasional sips I'd had of my father's beer...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Coffee Is A State Of Mind | 10/23/1987 | See Source »

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