Word: sicklied
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...Larry: I get sick of it. I can't gamble. There's a lot of money in there, though. I'm elderly. I get money six months out of the year from this place. But I get sick of it. You're in the bar, you want to buy a girl a drink. But all the fucking drinks here are free. And besides, the chicks in here, all they want to talk about is slot machines. I want to talk about pussy...
...telephone and direct-mail blasts, everything short of leaflets dropping from the skies above South Carolina. The dogs were tearing into McCain, raising questions about his character and dedication to the conservative cause. Bush told the crowd, in his new fire-in-the-belly style, "If you're sick and tired of the politics of cynicism, of polls and principles, come and join this campaign." His slip of the tongue about being tired of principles hinted at what happened in South Carolina: Bush believed he would be finished if he lost the state, so he did what it took...
...talent to get shot down. And though many in the crowd conclude that he is made of different stuff, the suggestion that he's completely normal somehow lifts them up, lets them share some of that glory. McCain's many critics in Washington watch this and feel sick to their stomach because to them, he is a sanctimonious hypocrite who acts as though he is both personally and politically better and braver than other people, even as he too occasionally flies a corporate jet and takes money from special interests...
...sign of a quiet revolution under way in Jordan. The new King, who ascended the throne after his father's death last year, is intent on doing the nation's business in unusual ways. Hence the getups. Ten times in disguise--ranging from a TV reporter to a sick patient--but also frequently without it, the King has plunged into his domain on snap inspection missions. What he discovers--civil servants drinking tea, gossiping and knocking off early as they give their countrymen endless runarounds--has him axing useless officials and groaning about the bloated bureaucracy when he gets home...
...that has eluded it for so long. In December, only a month before Jesse's death prompted the U.S. Food and Drug Administration to shut down all gene-therapy research at the University of Pennsylvania, reports were circulating in scientific circles that a team from the Necker Hospital for Sick Children in Paris had achieved heartening results in a gene-therapy trial designed to cure severe combined immunodeficiency (SCID), an inherited disorder that, left untreated, is fatal...