Word: sicked
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Children who get sick from such allergic conditions as hay fever, asthma and eczema may be like the little boy in Lewis Carroll's jingle ("And beat him when he sneezes: He only does it to annoy, Because he knows it teases"). Children sometimes enjoy their parents' annoyance, according to Allergist Hyman Miller and Psychologist Dorothy W. Baruch, both of Beverly Hills, Calif. Miller and Baruch have finished a study of 90 children with allergies and 53 others without allergies. Last week they reported some of their findings to the American Orthopsychiatric Association's annual meeting...
...want to slam the door and break things and run away and get out. But I can't ... I can't do nothing to my father and mother. I just can't. I just want to get out. But I can't. I get sick. Then my mother brings me stuff and my daddy does, too, to make me better." Eddie, going-on-five, was gleeful when he reported : "When I'm sick my daddy has to walk around at night for me and he says 'Goddam...
...Miller and Baruch, "is an almost universal phenomenon in our culture." But the allergic children are afraid to bring their hostility out into the open ; they bottle it up until it breaks out as illness. They feel guilty about their hostility and are really punishing themselves by getting sick...
...assayer was all set for speedy Senate confirmation when anonymous letters began to trickle into Washington. All called attention to his prominent patient. New York's Republican Irving Ives suggested that the good dentist be looked into, after which point Dr. Singer announced that he was a very sick man, and didn't any longer want the job. Quietly, Harry Truman withdrew the nomination...
July 17. Poor whiggedie whellow was very sick in his stomach . . . but . . . brisk as ever this morning...