Word: sicked
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...only passenger had cleared the Dardanelles, barged up the Sea of Marmora and dropped anchor in the Bosporus off Leander's Tower. Later Stavro Chelebides, agent for the Maiotis, brought out from shore potatoes, macaroni, meat and salad greens for Mr. Insull who had been desperately sick in the Aegean on a diet of boiled chicken. Fresh water was taken aboard so the Maiotis could sail that afternoon...
...martyrdom and submit as a Christian duty. Govern the tongue, that unruly member. The church conflict has filled the mass of our people with astonishment, scorn and bitterness, for they cannot understand why pastors should quarrel. Nothing cures the itch for church politics like a visit to the sick...
...began to sound the call to fire stations. Commander McHenry, dropping his knife and fork, rushed on deck. Flames were leaping from the ventilators; the fire was already beyond control. Hastily an S. 0. S. was sent, a moment before the wireless cabin was engulfed in flames. Men from sick bay were placed in boats and lowered to the water. The rest of the ship's company were forced to the bow by the conflagration amidships...
...small finger infection was studiously disregarded until the infection had spread throughout her entire arm. An epileptic who, as the attendant put it, "stopped tipping when her money ran low," was deserted in the throes of a fit. The story runs on in this manner to tell of sick being left to die, of aged beaten into submission, of inedible food, of medication by inexperienced and brutal attendants; no horror is absent, and the fact that it is told by the attendants themselves is eloquent proof of its veracity. Tam-many's record is long, but on no page...
...Party afford to set its attention on these minor material salients without a corresponding change in its psychology? For the danger is this, that a Socialist Party, as history has shown, exhibits a fatal tendency to regard these concessions which in a parasitical way it has sucked from the sick body of capitalism as ends in themselves and not simply as incidental to their larger goal of socialism. And this attitude tends to betray government, for these workers' apartments, social services, and all the rest, depend on the sufferance and the health of the capitalist system. In short, the Labor...