Word: sicked
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...ousting. Included was the $360,660 deposited by the sheriff in six years, which he feebly explained as coming out of a fabulous "tin box." His motley assortment of incompetent subordinates were also enumerated, including "BigHearted" Joe Flaherty, who gave a saloon to his brother because he was "sick and hard up," and his secretary, one McNulty, who denned his duties as "nothing in particular...
...presumption that most people have had a mild attack of infantile paralysis, which they did not notice but which nonetheless protects them against further assaults, Dr. Park's associates last season injected several thousand children with blood from their parents. Only three of these children became sick...
...administration seems to retain the impression that you can cure the patient by talking him out of being sick. The under-lying assumption of the campaign against hoarding is that the banks only fell because people didn't put money in them. Might it be whispered that in some cases the money was taken out because the banks were falling? Few people will be impressed by the declaration that "the limitation of American business to a domestic basis, would bring back at least ninety percent of the former prosperity of this nation." It amounts to the assertion that the simultaneous...
Back in Madrid Premier Azana swore mightily: "Por Dios! I am sick of this business! I'm going to give them back as good as they send. The anarchist movement started outside Spain but I am going to finish it here. We have rounded up about fifty of their leaders, tonight they are in jail, tomorrow they will be on their way to the colonies to cool their heels...
Since self-righteousness so often accompanies good health, bad health must result from unrighteousness, or so have reasoned the generations of mankind. His first serious twinge sends the sick man to doctor or priest, for pills sometimes, for confession always. M.D.'s diagnose them outside in, priests diagnose them inside out; together they cover all the ground. When one man combines the abilities of both, he can hang out his shingle on the moon. Scores of sick men will then scurry to live on the moon. Should he, like Freud, open his office on Venus, half the world will scurry...