Word: sicked
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...enemy Chiang Kai-shek to oppose Japan at Shanghai, resigned as Premier of the Nanking government, dragging the entire cabinet with him and sending an acid note to Chiang Kai-shek complaining bitterly at the piffling resistance to Japan put up by Chang Hsueh-liang, the Young Marshal. Sick, discouraged, disgraced, the Young Marshal offered his resignation too (TIME, Aug. 15). All the pleading of Chiang Kai-shek could not make him withdraw it last week...
...singles player. Henry Ellsworth Vines Jr. Combined with the fact that the U. S. team had not been impressive in the final round against Germany, it helped give France some of the confidence it had lost when Rene La Coste announced that he was too sick to play. French newspapers generously warned Vines not to eat pork and cucumber the day before he played Henri Cochet. as he had done before playing Gottfried von Cramm. Vines was not warned about eating cucumbers before his match with Jean Borotra because even the most optimistic Frenchmen took it for granted that Vines...
Health Hostels. Lord Dawson called attention to a much neglected type of sick man. His doctor may have prescribed for his defects. But, noted Lord Dawson, "the mere giving of medicines will often accomplish but little. What the patient wants is regimen and re-education in methods of living; treatment, it may be by diet, physicotherapy. and relaxation under controlled observation. Such treatment or education of the man and his tissues might take several weeks, and in most instances it would be advantageous for such patients to continue their ordinary avocations. We need a new type of institution?distinct from...
Soon after that a Miss Bertie Reardon saw a woman go to the rail, said to her girl friend: "I'll bet she's getting seasick." Then the girl friend got sick. Said Miss Reardon: "Pretty soon women all around me began to get up and go to the rail. And then they'd stay there and other people would push them aside. And one man got real sick and just leaned his head over, and then everybody started to do that. People were lying all around on chairs looking like they were dead...
...steered close to the dock at Alexandria, six miles from Washington, shouted his news as he went by. Alexandrians called the Washington police. Every ambulance in the city, fire trucks, patrol wagons, taxicabs and private cars rushed to the wharf. The Charles Macalester steamed in, her decks packed with sick, prostrate picnickers. Children wailed, women sobbed. A woman on the dock became hysterical, had to be led away. Stretcher bearers, walking carefully on the horrid decks, bore away 54 of those who could not walk. Doctors & nurses gave first aid on the wharf, poked patients into ambulances. Some 200 others...