Word: sicked
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...woman I had seen just after her child died. The child had died because it slept in a cold, wet bed. It had had to sleep in that bed because the family had been evicted from its home. The mother told the sheriff that her child was sick. He said to her: "I'm not here to nurse your god-damned kids.' " That morning on the White House lawn the President had addressed the same conference, convened to launch the drive for next winter's private relief. He told no stories. His eyes blinking in the dazzling...
Only his silk-vested and sombreroed courtiers realized how sick a man was King Feisal of Irak last month when, after his soldiers and some fierce border Kurds had massacred 600 Assyrians, he awaited, "in spite of my broken health," the arrival of a British investigator (TIME, Aug. 28). His impatience to leave for a "vacation" in Switzerland sounded, especially in view of his holiday in England only a few weeks prior, like an effort to gloss over the massacre. Last week came proof it was no such thing. The Assyrian trouble was quieted, but not a disturbance in lean...
...Fugitive Insull, aged 73, lost his temper, sputtered and fumed while his rooms were being searched, his papers seized. Day prior he had told the Athens correspondent of the New York Sun that he "never felt better." By the time he reached police headquarters he complained of being a sick old man who would die in jail. He was placed under guard in the Logothetopoulos Clinic. Most interested in his arrest was a 30-year-old Turk named Mrs. Vouyndjoglou who used to accompany him to Athens parties...
...manufacturing sobriquets which not only stuck but fitted. When, therefore, an obscure Tennessee General defied the Secretary of War, when he wangled twenty days' rations for his 2070 men from an unfriendly colleague, when he dug a thousand dollars out of his own pocket to care for the sick, and when, turning over his own horses to the medical department, he herded his disheartened regiment all the way from Natchez to Nashville--it was certainly time for a new nickname. "He's tough," exclaimed an admiring voice from the ranks. "Tough as hickory," observed another, naming the toughest thing...
Early this week, when sleeping sickness had stricken 137, killed 18 St. Louisans, Kansas City, Mo. reported three sick, one dead of the disease. Individual cases, though they may last five years, usually last only three weeks. Some of St. Louis' sufferers had already recovered, tragically. Sleeping sickness ordinarily kills about one fifth of its victims. Those spared it nearly always leaves with paralyzed bodies, twisted characters or weakened minds...