Word: sickly
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Sauter: I think so. While we were organizing rallies about Afghanistan a year ago. Reagan was out campaigning, and the people were just growing sick, morally sick, over the consequences of having liberal Jimmy Carter in office, over the consequences of having liberal policies, leftist policies that were not really helping poor people who are not dealing with the threats of the totalitarian movement. It was giant wave, and of course this wave is going to come over campuses; it came over during the elections, and even the little trickle that's come onto Harvard...
...April 11. We see Ruisdael entire, for the first and perhaps the last time. The man, however, disappears behind the work. Little is known of his life, except that he was the son of a mediocre painter, was baptized as an adult into the Reformed Church and was a sick man. He lived from 1628 to 1682. Nobody wrote about him or painted his portrait. Of his tastes, ambitions, fears and character, we know nothing...
...against his boss in order to keep a newly adopted child; and Maria Schrallhammer, the maid of 23 years who in her sharp German accent and precise detailed accounts "nailed" her master by testifying that he refused, both Decembers, to call a doctor though he knew his wife was sick both became instant celebrities...
Marks assailed "a President and his cronies whose belief in Hooverism has blinded them to the wretchedness and to the suffering they are inflicting." He ticked off those whom he considers the victims of Reaganomics, including "the sick, the poor, the handicapped, the blue-collar and white-collar workers, the small business person, the black community, women of all economic and social backgrounds, men and women who desperately need job training, families that deserve and desire the right to send their children to college; in fact, anyone and everyone, other than those who have been fortunate enough to insulate themselves...
...when a woman in labor and her two young children were left at home alone while her husband was taken out into the frosty night, dressed only in a bathrobe, then pushed into a cell with broken windows. This was the same cell where Professor Klemens Szaniawski had fallen sick with pneumonia right after he finished chairing a session of the Congress for Polish Culture...