Word: sickly
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...struggle against soaring Pentagon spending. He had challenged the costly proposals of Navy Secretary John Lehman, who argues strenuously for a 600-ship Navy. In Thayer, a tough, blunt former naval aviator and test pilot, Lehman had an adversary of substance. This fall Lehman complained that he was "sick and tired of spending 98% of my time up on the Hill undoing the damage that senior Defense officials are doing to the President's budget." By "senior officials," Lehman meant Thayer, who reportedly responded, "This place isn't big enough for both...
Dwyer cited increases in pensions, sick and disability pay as issues he would have liked to see addressed in the contract...
Even when he got sick, Abernathy continued his work, shifting his emphasis more from teaching to research. He wrote his most famous works after discovering he had cancer, and going through a series of operations...
When war strikes, Michael K flees burned-out Cape Town on foot, wheeling his sick mother Anna in an improvised wheelbarrow. Their ordeal is infernal. Hounded by the police and by thieves, the pair get as far as a hospital, where Anna dies. Michael K is stripped of his money; all he has left is a cardboard box filled with his mother's ashes. Undeterred, he moves on to the place of his dreams, the abandoned farm on the arid South African tablelands of the Karoo, where his mother was born. There he scatters Anna's ashes...
...sick of raiding my memory and feeding on the past...I want an active connection to myself. I'm sick of channeling everything in to writing. I want the real thing, the thing in the raw, and not for the writing but for itself...