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Word: sicked (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Republicans were not appeased. Cried New Hampshire's angry Styles Bridges: "Everyone on the Republican side this morning was either sick to his stomach or mad as hell. It is impossible for me to understand how any Republican Senator would resign his position of responsibility and trust when it meant turning the post over to a Democrat.* It doesn't smell good to me." But to the Democrats, and especially to Chester Bowles, it smelled fine...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: CONNECTICUT: One More Democrat | 5/9/1949 | See Source »

...matter-of-fact voice he explained that he was Paul Makushak, 33. For ten years, or maybe it was eleven, he said, he had been living in the cramped cubbyhole. His mother, Anna, had fed him by lowering food through the chimney on a clothesline. When his mother became sick and had to be taken to Greenpoint Hospital, she had asked her neighbor, Mrs. Kowalsky, to take over...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Medicine: A Place to Hide In | 5/9/1949 | See Source »

...Star clipping to visitors, pasted it into her scrap-book-and began to eat again. With a new lease on life she began to enjoy the shipments of frozen and fresh watermelons supplied by the Star's readers. At week's end, Barbara was still too sick to live-and still happily alive...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Press: Watermelon for Barbara | 5/9/1949 | See Source »

...Tucson last week, chubby little Barbara Willis was dying of leukemia, but nobody had told her how sick she was. When the 13-year-old youngster developed a strange craving for watermelon, not available in Tucson, her doctor appealed to the Arizona Daily Star for help. It promptly asked its readers to help Barbara. To keep the truth of her sickness from her, Barbara's parents hid the newspaper. But that only made Barbara suspicious. She guessed that she was dying, and she refused to eat anything at all. Desperately, Barbara's mother appealed to the Star...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Press: Watermelon for Barbara | 5/9/1949 | See Source »

...officers are planning an outing of just the type that causes Al Capp to be violently, publicly, and (it is believed) figuratively sick to his stomach...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Outing Club Goes Out On Picnic Tomorrow | 5/7/1949 | See Source »

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