Word: invalidity
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...play, in a lively new English translation by Germaine and Marston Balch, bears resemblance to Moliere's classic Imaginary Invalid in that Romains, like Moliere, uses medicine as a foil to pierce the frailties of human nature and lay bare the mechanisms which dominate the bourgeois mind...
...because the House Un-American Activities Committee operates under such vague auspices ("Who," asked Warren, "can define the meaning of 'un-American'?"), Witness Watkins was "not accorded a fair opportunity to determine whether he was within his rights in refusing to answer." Conclusion: "His conviction is necessarily invalid under the Due Process Clause." With that ruling went a gratuitous warning to Congress: in the future dot all the i's and cross all the t's in spelling out committee jurisdiction and legislative purpose with "particularity...
...Bohemian, a dangerous freethinker. He was obsessed by two great themes, love and death, and chose to depict them in terms of man's paralysis and anxiety when faced with them as raw forces in nature. Much of his anxiety had its roots in his early semi-invalid youth. His mother died when he was five; his father, a military surgeon, gave way to morbid religiosity and insane outbursts at his children. Recalled Painter Munch bitterly: "I always felt that I was treated unjustly, without a mother, sick and threatened with punishment in Hell...
...Through an accident (no fault of Bailey's) the patient bled to death. Misfortune beset him in three other cases. Not until June 10, 1948 did he have a "good risk" patient at Philadelphia's Episcopal Hospital. Mrs. Melville Ward, 24, of East Orange, N.J., an invalid for five years, had been told she had six months to live. Bailey slipped his finger through the "tail" of the auricle (the "appendage"), slid a knife along it and slit the joined valve leaves apart. Eight days later Claire Ward went to Chicago to appear before a meeting of chest...
...baseball, baseball, baseball at his head. He certainly did not dare to tell his father. The only time Jim ever really interfered with father's ambitions-he sprained an ankle in a skating fall-the old man had a heart attack. After that, since mother Piersall was an invalid too, Jim was the sole support of his family; and as the pressure to make good got stronger, the headaches got worse...