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Word: sicked (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1930-1939
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Ordinarily, FBI operatives do not enter income tax cases until the Treasury's T-men (internal revenue secret agents) have finished their work. Supposition was that the FBI stepped in early on Boss Pendergast's case because he is not only old (66) but sick. The Administration had to hurry, to be sure and match Tom Dewey's Hines sensation with an even greater prosecution...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: CORRUPTION: BIGGER THAN HINES | 4/17/1939 | See Source »

Early in February Catalonia was collapsing like a punctured balloon. One day Colonel Enrique Lister, one of the commanders who led the Loyalists in their last-ditch stand, ordered him to evacuate his Gerona hospital of its sick and wounded. Dr. Vidal protested that many of the patients were too frail to be moved. Thereupon Colonel Lister got so very angry that he ordered shot down not Dr. Vidal, but Dr. Vidal's 28-year-old wife and 24 doctors, nurses and attendants...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: SPAIN: DR. VIDDI'S TALE | 4/17/1939 | See Source »

...last 19, Laurence Hills was returning to his native New York City to report on the condition of the Paris edition of the New York Herald Tribune, of which he is editor and general manager. Three facts made this trip different from its predecessors: 1) Laurence Hills was sick, 2) Europe was sick, 3) his paper was not too well...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Press: Le New York | 4/17/1939 | See Source »

...vocals--things like "Nobody Knows De Trouble I've Seen" (Decca)--and despite the complete absence of anything even resembling the usual human singing voice, you'll get an idea of simplicity and sincere, deep emotion that'll make the Clinton-Shaw-Dorsey school of riffing look extremely sick...

Author: By Michael Levin, | Title: Swing | 4/14/1939 | See Source »

Down the alley now the pins looked hazy. Bowler McGeorge felt a little sick at his stomach. His palms sweated so that he had to dry them. He dabbed his fingers with chalk, got a grip of sorts on himself, picked up the ball, sighted down the maple strip, and let fly. It was his only erratic shot. There was a gasp as it crossed over, broke toward the Brooklyn (left) side. But on the left side is the 1-2 pocket, which bowlers sometimes call Last Chance Gulch, and right in there Bowler McGeorge's last straying hook...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Sport: Without a Miss | 4/3/1939 | See Source »

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