Word: sickly
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...alcoholism these days is over whether an alcoholic can ever again return to social drinking without inevitably suffering a relapse. Vaillant, who constantly repeats that alcoholism is a problem that can be described only in grays, not in black or white, says that it all depends on how sick the alcoholic is: "If you have a little bit of alcoholism, as if you have a little bit of diabetes, you can control it." But Vaillant warns, "By the time a clinician identifies a person as an alcoholic, it's almost always too late to return to social drinking...
...Newport Beach, Calif. Even in the silent era she tended to be typecast in such films as Ramona (1928) and The Loves of Carmen (1927); after sound, her accent limited her still further, though she starred in Flying Down to Rio (1933) and Madame Du Barry (1934). Finally sick of the Hollywood yoke, she returned to Mexico and helped establish the country's movie industry, notably with Maria Candelaria...
...really boils down to symptoms. Pregnant replies, mystic allusions, mistaken identities, arguing his father is his mother, that sort of thing. . . Knock-kneed, droop-stockinged and sighing like a love-sick schoolboy, which at his age is coming on a bit strong...
...Guerrier, who had been caught passing classified documents relating to French energy plans to a Soviet attaché. Said a Western expert on Soviet affairs: "You don't have to look any further I than the obvious explanation. The Soviet buildup has been substantial, and the French are sick of it, just like the British " were...
...this. To be sure, the Harvard Administration and scores of professors are "friends" of ROTC and "are interested in promoting the use of military force." But the SYL does not protest ideologues for their views, but war criminals for their deeds. "Friends of ROTC," a collection of sick Cantabrigian sociopaths is not the question. In 1939, Hitler had the Wehrmacht, but who-ever heard of the Friends of the Wehrmacht--unless it was the German-American Bund...