Word: sicklied
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...again those questions found voice at the Lincoln Memorial in an ever-growing community of discontent. And there was a new urgency in those voices, drawing not from extremism but from legitimacy: "Vote 84," read an old man's crudely-lettered sign. "Reagan must be stop. THE MAN IS SICK." Only 20 years after the 1963 march, this man could cast himself as the conserves, and a Republican as a radical fanatic. There is confidence in his assertion, a sense of political entitlement, hard...
...parent who willfully scalds a child's arm is a criminal. Of course, a man who stomps his pregnant wife is a criminal. These cases are, ironically, the easiest ones to think about: when the violence is so ugly and utterly inexcusable, you just throw the book at the sick bastards...
...most moving moment of the visit came at the close, when John Paul held a special audience for the sick. Walking quietly among the wheelchairs and stretchers, the Pope touched the lame, kissed the heads of small children carried to him by their parents, and blessed elderly cripples too weak even to speak. Finally, the Pope paused at the front of the grotto to pray in silence. For ten minutes he knelt, his head bowed, occasionally seeming to wipe away tears. Then he told his fellow pilgrims, "Faith assures us that the Lord can and wants to draw good from...
...ruin of Troy and the deaths of many of Aeneas' loved ones, then persuades Aeolus, ruler of the winds, to blow up a storm that disperses Aeneas' escaping fleet. He comforts his drenched, surviving companions with words he does not believe: "So ran the speech. Burdened and sick at heart,/ He feigned hope in his look, and inwardly/ Contained his anguish...
Were flecked with red as her sick pallor grew