Word: sicklied
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Those who have sought to break the deadlock have indeed been repulsed as firmly as those who made it. Two weeks ago, 13 U.N. Security Council members unanimously condemned the South African offensive (only the U.S. and Great Britain abstained). "South Africa is sick and tired of the hypocrisy of that Council and its members," said South African Foreign Minister Roelof ("Pik") Botha in reply. The Soviet Union took the unusual measure of approaching South Africa diplomatically to warn it against destabilizing the Angolan regime. Responding to both intrusions, the Durban-based Sunday Tribune editorialized, "Go to hell...
...bourgeoisie to power, says the historian, made it suspicious of all change, anxious and insecure about itself; it cherished privacy and discretion. "In matters of sexuality," explained the great explainer of that time and class, Sigmund Freud, "we are, all of us, the healthy as much as the sick, hypocrites nowadays...
Then follows the thread of despair: 'But I didn't care about rules any more. I didn't care about memories. I was sick to death of tension and tiredness and distress and distorted values and the high-pitched level and the fortitude which we had proved beyond doubt that we possessed. I had passed the flame, I had had my initiation... I was sick to death of being on the qui vive all the time...
...than boys and die at a faster rate. To prolong Alex's life, Deford and his wife Carol daily had to hold her upside down and pound her chest and back to loosen the life-threatening mucus in her lungs. "Two thousand times I had to beat my sick child," her father recalls, "make her hurt and cry and plead - 'No, not the down ones, Daddy' - and in the end, for what...
Insects and mushrooms colonize the sick trees, hastening the plants' deaths. About 15% of West Germany's oaks and 26% of its beeches are ailing. But evergreens have been the most susceptible: 76% of the country's firs are affected...