Word: sicked
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...American Federation of Labor. Last year when A. F. of L. leaders suspended C.I.O. unions, they charged that C.I.O. was an attempt to set up a "dual organization," a charge that was indignantly denied. Last week when the news reached the Federation's President William Green, he looked sick and said I-told-you-so: "It was clearly evident from the beginning that this objective would be finally reached, that the C.I.O. would move on to the point where they would decide to function as a rival organization...
...then went down to do more work at the University of North Carolina where he is stationed at present. He taught several summers at the Harvard School of Education, and took the place of Henry W. Holmes, dean of the school, in one of his courses when Holmes was sick...
...Have you suffered from illness lately? A. I was sick in 1925. Since then I have not lost a single day. At the first symptom of any kind of indisposition I fast for at least 24 hours. Out of my organism I have made an engine, constantly supervised and controlled, which runs with absolute regularity...
...tests" on a powerful chemical of his own devising so that he could dissolve himself. Declaimed the author of A Hundred and a Hundred and a Hundred and a Hundred Pages from the Secret Book of Gabriele d'Annunzio, Attempter of Death: "I am an old man and sick, so I am going to hasten my end . . . disdaining to agonize between bed sheets." Amended the 74-year-old eccentric's long-time friend Luisa Bacarra: "He was speaking in rhetorical rather than literal terms...
...sweltering August morning in Fall River, Mass. Some of the Borden household felt distinctly under the weather. Night before last both Mr. & Mrs. Borden had been violently sick; this morning Bridget, the maid-of-all-work, felt none too well. But they all got up as usual, went about their daily tasks. After breakfast 70-year-old Mr. Borden walked down town to do some business errands. Bridget, her first chores done, went up to her room to lie down. Mrs. Borden, 64 and fat, puffed up the front stairs to change the pillow slips in the spare room. That...