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Word: sickness (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1970-1979
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...eight months after the bust the Faculty still had not bothered to act on the merger and merger proponents were getting sick of waiting around. The Radcliffe Quarterly ran an editorial in December 1969, chastizing professorial lethargy on the merger. "The Faculty on Arts and Sciences has seemed in no hurry to put the merger on its agenda," the editorial criticized...

Author: By Susan C. Faludi, | Title: Merger? What Merger? | 11/3/1979 | See Source »

...Missionaries of Charity have since grown into a worldwide order numbering more than 1,800 nuns, 250 brothers and thousands of lay "co-workers" who serve the sick, the lonely, the destitute and the dying in 30 countries...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Nobel Prizes: I Accept in the Name of the Poor | 10/29/1979 | See Source »

...walking dead. There was no imagining what horrors they had witnessed and survived, or perhaps even committed, since some of them are cadres of the ruthless and decimated Khmer Rouge army. After a few days of rest and replenishment in Thailand, they will probably have to return, lame and sick and malnourished, to their dreaded homeland: Cambodia...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: CAMBODIA: And Now the Horror of Famine | 10/22/1979 | See Source »

...wheel-drive car starting in 1982. The U.S. firm would thus have an entry to challenge General Motors' X-body compact cars, which are now being marketed, and the new models that Ford and Chrysler are expected to put into dealers' showrooms. Said AMC Vice President Wilson Sick: "We just couldn't stay in the passenger-car business and meet the federal standards [for pollution control and gas mileage]. But Renault has the technology, it has an excellent product and [it has] the money...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Business: French Accent | 10/22/1979 | See Source »

...corrolas of May flowers had spread open, and now their stigmas waved about, lewdly coated with sick secretions. The pollen which fell in showers from the pines would adhere to them and attempt a kind of sodomy, but success would be reserved for pollen of the same species...In the forest, maple twigs could not be bruised in this season, in fact could barely be touched, without causing the sweet sap to ejaculate into...

Author: By Katherine P. States, | Title: The Real McKay | 10/20/1979 | See Source »

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