Word: sicklied
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...only other president to die in office was President Zachary Taylor, elected in 1848. However, President Taylor allegedly spent July 4, 1850, eating cherries and milk at a ceremony at the Washington Monument. He got sick from the heat and died five days later, the second president to die in office. Frankly, he should have known better--that cherries and milk combination is always a killer...
...thing, the country is as sick of the subject as a mother who has delivered after a fourteen-month pregnancy. For another, the argument always ruins the evening. This election has fermented into a sort of darkening inebriant that makes people ugly. I find myself going on a toxic tear and firing off lines of crackpot dudgeon - pure postelectoral rant...
...when Randolph arrived in Massachusetts 20 years ago, she had hardly anything. Arriving with her sick mother-in-law in the middle of winter, she spoke no English, had no job and was far from the warm shores of her native Haiti...
...less than a year before Randolph returned to America. This time, bringing with her a sick mother-in-law, she was greeted by a harsh Boston winter that was a far cry from her weather at home...
...First, be elaborately gracious--for 15 or 20 minutes, anyway. Call for national unity. Congratulate the jerk who beat you. Walk away jauntily, as if you'd won. In a sense, you did. No talk about stolen elections. No "I was robbed!" Don't look back. Americans are sick of the subject anyway, and have drawn their own conclusions...