Word: sicked
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Mildred Elizabeth Gillars, 47, went to Europe in 1929 to study music. When war came she stayed on in Berlin, broadcasting a mixture of sirupy music and defeatist propaganda to U.S. troops. Los Angeles-born Iva Toguri d'Aquino, 32, went to Japan in 1941 "to see a sick aunt," was caught there by Pearl Harbor. Along with half a dozen English-speaking Japanese girls, she became the corporate voice which Pacific troops nicknamed Tokyo Rose. Just before war's end, she married a Portuguese newsman...
Behind the Bars. The jail is a dark, dank, one-story building surrounding a dirty, unpaved patio. At least 500 men were packed in that patio. Some were crippled veterans of last year's civil war. Along the walls the sick lay in the sun. Over all hung the stench of the prison's single latrine...
...Struck dumb in 1943 by an emotional disorder, Emilio Franco, a 35-year-old coal miner, took a ride on a Coney Island roller coaster, began screaming on the second dip. Back on solid ground, his first coherent words in five years were: "I feel sick...
...vaccine was injected into 790 students; another 1,230 students were not vaccinated. During the epidemic, exactly the same percentage of each group (9.5%) came down with flu. Severity of the attack was about the same in each group; 2.5% of the vaccinated and 2.26% of the unvaccinated were sick enough to go to a hospital...
...Western world tends to think of the Arab as a falcon-eyed warrior on a white horse. That Arab is still around, but he is far less numerous than the disease-ridden wretches who lie in the hot streets, too weak, sick and purposeless to roll over into the shade...