Word: sicked
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...alone in its troubles. The orchestra that hard-working Conductor Izler Solomon had built in Columbus, Ohio had finally tumbled down in its eighth year, unable to raise $90,000 for its oncoming season. Baltimore and Seattle, among others, would limp through their seasons, still on the sick list. But from Portland, Ore. last week came cheering news of a remedy if not a cure...
...whole nation wasn't sick by any means, but there were a few sore spots that needed treatment. In Government lingo, these are known as Grade E areas, with a "very substantial labor supply," which is another way of saying that more than 12% of the workers are out of jobs...
...some form, poliomyelitis is probably one of the commonest diseases. Current medical opinion is that nearly everybody gets it, but usually in so mild a form that it seems to be only a sick headache, or a low fever, not unlike a cold. Millions of such cases are never recognized. The lucky victim, once his system has thrown off the virus, appears to be immune to further attacks...
Aboard an airliner winging its bumpy way over Texas one day in 1941, the pale-faced little stewardess felt too sick to serve dinner. Hustling, bustling Passenger James Kirby Dobbs, then joint owner of 46 food shops scattered through twelve states and an old hand at doing things for himself, quickly volunteered to serve. But one look at the unpalatable food made Dobbs queasy himself. Then & there he decided that he could put up better meals to serve aloft than the airlines...
Some Britons once firmly believed that a man could cure a cough by pulling a hair from his head, putting it between two pieces of buttered bread, and feeding it to a dog with the words: "Good luck, you bound. May you be sick and I be sound." Expected result: the dog trotted off coughing, the man recovered...