Word: invalidism
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...gray house of his Aunt Elisabeth Amiot (called Tante Léonie in the novel) stands just two blocks from the pastry shop. On the second floor is the bedroom where she cultivated her hypochondria to the point of becoming a bedridden invalid for 20 years. Later, her nephew emulated her example: writing feverishly at night (he practically existed on café au lait), sleeping during the day (with the aid of veronal), Proust rarely left his bed in a cork-lined Paris room during the last 15 years of his life. On Aunt Elisabeth's bedside table, gracing...
...insurance benefits were soon exhausted, along with their savings of $1,500. Snyder is now home once more but unable to work and he still owes one hospital $4,000. "They were very nice about it," says his mother, Mrs. Minnie Snyder, who supports herself and her invalid son on an income of $300 a month. "I am now paying them $20 a month...
...ticketseller. The ticketseller became suspicious, called the Harvard Trust Company, and found out that an account had been opened that morning-April 22-by Jeff Elman. The bank said that there was not enough money to cover the check, and immediately notified Elman that his account was invalid. In the meantime an-other check signed "Jeff Elman," but with an entirely different-looking signature was presented to NPAC for $90 worth of tickets. The CRIMSON possesses photostatic copies of both checks...
Powell told Abzug and the other Representatives that their invitation to the demonstrators was invalid because they had not obtained permission for the assembly from the Capitol police...
...well as some 500 students. Among at least seven University of Dacca professors who were executed without apparent reason was the head of the philosophy department, Govinda Chandra Dev, 65, a gentle Hindu who believed in unity in diversity. Another victim was Jo-gesh Chandra Ghosh, 86, the invalid millionaire chemist. Ghosh, who did not believe in banks, was dragged from his bed and shot to death by soldiers who looted more than $1 million in rupees from his home...