Word: sicked
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...highroad from the capital poured reporters and would-be Forty-Niners of the Atomic Age. In a Saint-Sylvestre pub simple peasants talked grandly: "Our village will make France powerful again. We, too, will have the bomb. They say you can run trains with this uranium. Cure the sick...
...Teapot. Book publishers said such a bureau would not work, but many were delighted with the S.R.L. story. Said Executive Editor Lee Barker of Doubleday: "I know the story is completely accurate . . . I'm so heartily sick of all the complete foolishness of bestseller lists." But the Times and Tribune were not so pleased. Said Times Sunday Editor Lester Markel: "They made the survey without asking what the Times method is. We think ours ... is as good...
...tell you it makes me sick to my stomach seeing all those suckers drive down from New Hampshire and Maine and Boston and Connecticut just to watch a bunch of goats limp around a small-time track for feed money...
About this time of year certain elements of the population get sick of basketball, pinball and numbers and want to hear the patter of tiny hoofs along the backstretch. And so the guys and dolls from far and near will congregate today at the Pawtucket oval...
...Like a sick man hanging on the doctor's opinion, Brazil's business and financial world awaited the final report of the Abbink Commission. This joint U.S.-Brazilian team of 105 experts, led by U.S. Economist John Abbink (chairman of McGraw-Hill International Corp.) had begun its study of Brazil's ailing economy six months ago; since then, businessmen and politicians in Rio had speculated endlessly on the probable diagnoses, the possible cures. Some had hopefully regarded "los Abbinks" as advance agents of the U.S. Treasury. Last week, when the U.S. State Department finally published a summary...