Word: sicked
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...before the Committee a great bale of documents which he said contained 6,020.000 signatures petitioning the anthem's official adoption. Said he: "I stood on San Juan Hill in '98 and heard four bands play that tune. All around me in pup tents men were lying sick with fever but when they heard that glorious old tune, every last man somehow got to his feet...
...paeon praising Il Duce. To celebrate his immortality he dyed his remaining hair a rich and glossy black. The hair dye soaked into his skull, affected his brain, according to his doctor. Previously he had married a lady, described by the Fascist press as "a Japanese beauty." Last week, sick, mad, and feebly tearing his raven hair, he was said to be in such condition that his keepers expected speedy Death...
...protruded biceps as big as a strong man's thigh. His weight was annonnced at 269½. In the opposite corner was his first U. S. opponent, Big Boy Peterson, a New Orleans Swede, only two inches shorter but 60 Ib. lighter. Big Boy stared with a white, sick face at the giant, and when the bell rang rushed toward him, was knocked down four times in quick succession, counted out. Camera hurried to a cabaret, cut a large steak in four slices and swallowed it, asked for more, drank three glasses of champagne, went out to a speakeasy...
...individuality of a Montessori-trained youngster be arrested, nor is the pupil stimulated to any unnatural effort. The system of "rewards & punishment" is un-Montessorian because it encourages the child to do something it would not want to do otherwise. A child who is not mentally or physically sick must become "master of himself" when at liberty. Platonically, he has then become disciplined. Parents are assured that Montessori-trained children are not told, ballad-wise: "If you feel like yelling, yell like hell!" Anti-social behavior is anticipated by the second precept, an appeal to the individual "mysterious life-force...
International squad. Several men who have achieved the honor of a place on the International have been yanked out before big games because they were sick or injured or because the committee decided at the last minute that someone else would do better. So high does sectional feeling run in polo that, although sportsmanship or indifference kept the disappointed players from saying anything, their friends have been bitter. Next year, if suggestions made at the meeting are adopted, the team may be picked on the day of a game, and not till then, from an "International squad...