Word: ill-health
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...Force and Submarine Service, where physical standards are unusually high. "Even if the examiner discovers a defect, despite the effort to conceal it, a candidate will often argue its insignificance to the point where you will almost be persuaded to delete such from your report. Beware. . . ." Epidemics of concealed ill-health break out whenever army groups prepare to travel. Reason: seasoned soldiers fear nothing more than separation from their comrades...
Thanks to such political outcries, Chief of Staff George C. Marshall last week deviated from his rigid rule that no reasons be given for relieving officers. When General E. A. Walsh of the 34th Division was relieved last week, the War Department pointed out that ill-health had caused his retirement from active duty...
After his death in 1901, a brief, old-fashioned travel diary was found among Bishop Whipple's papers. When he was 21, ill-health had driven him South for the winter, on a long, tedious, weakening journey. He went from New York to Savannah on a first-class merchantman, from Savannah to St. Augustine by steamer, across Georgia "on the worst railroad ever invented," by river boat from New Orleans to St. Louis, up the Ohio on the crowded, dirty Goddess of Liberty ("anything but a goddess," wrote young Whipple sourly). by stage ("far pleasanter than on a rail...
...daughter Queen Mary, "the evidence of congenital syphilis became, surely, all too plain. Her face was prematurely old and scarred, her hair thin and patchy; she had a 'square head,' with the forehead abnormally protruding." Queen Elizabeth, Henry's other daughter, "suffered a heritage of ill-health from her father . . . knew that she would never bear any children of her own." Queen Anne "was small in stature, and small women are always the most prolific. . . . She married Prince George of Denmark in 1683, when she was 19, and had 17 children in 25 years, before George...
...many collections of English proverbs, Compiler William George Smith's is latest, most definitive. His Sisyphean task took him about 25 years, netted him over 10,000 proverbs. Because ill-health downed him before he could ready his book for the press, able Assistant Janet Heseltine supplied the introduction and index. Compiler Smith lists his proverbs alphabetically, dates the earliest published examples, gives illustrative quotations, but is not always able to explain their origins. Since most familiar proverbs need no translation for native English-speakers, few are given...