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Word: sickness (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1970-1979
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Basketball coach Frank McLaughlin: "You know, I get sick and tired of wearing those corny plaid three-piece suits all the time. I'd really feel much more comfortable in a dashiki and clogs during home games...

Author: By Bill Scheft, | Title: Bed Sheets to the Wind | 10/6/1978 | See Source »

...getting sick of this universe...

Author: By Scott A. Rosenberg, | Title: One Last Time Around | 9/30/1978 | See Source »

...sick of Harvard soccer teams that unluckily lose frustratingly close games? Relax, your cure is here. The Harvard women's soccer eleven journeys to Tufts this morning and they're "gonna win" as co-captain Julie Brynteson screamed yesterday, letting down her tactically cautious guard for just long enough to let her real confidence show through...

Author: By Stephen A. Herzenberg, | Title: Talented Women Booters Prepare to Crush Tufts | 9/30/1978 | See Source »

...second day of fishing found the Crimson's 25-ft. dory pitching on tempestuous seas and most of the team members leaning over the rails. Purdy queasily recalls, "I spit my tooth out, that was how sick I got. It was the highlight of the tournament...

Author: By Robert Sidorsky, | Title: 'Ask Any Mermaid You Happen to See...' | 9/28/1978 | See Source »

...convicted, then that should be greeted as a pleasant surprise. The first business, without being bloodthirsty about it, is to keep society's contract with itself and punish a crime as it promised it would. Author C.S. Lewis has pointed out the totalitarian possibilities in treating criminals as sick people who need to be cured: "If crime and disease are to be regarded as the same thing, it follows that any state of mind which our masters choose to call 'disease' can be treated as crime; and compulsorily cured." The KGB understands the logic...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Time Essay: On Crime and Much Harder Punishment | 9/18/1978 | See Source »

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