Word: sicked
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...seven such wives to its offices to find out why they were not with their husbands in provincial Sverdlovsk, in the Urals. First the women talked of Moscow's culture and comforts, but when assured that Sverdlovsk has culture, too, the most common excuse was: "My Mama is sick." One woman complained that she had nine different ailments (the ninth: hydrophobia against the kind of water used in Sverdlovsk). Together, the seven women claimed a total of 67 maladies that only living in Moscow seemed to check...
...stand an hour of literate, intelligent conversation, then I urge you to go see your minister, your priest, your rabbi, or your psychiatrist: you are deathly sick." The speaker was Alexander King, sometime adman, artist, editor and dope addict, who has turned the kind of anecdote-flavored coffeehouse talk that has long been familiar in his home town (Vienna) into a highly successful TV act. His garrulous appearances on the Jack Paar show helped boost his current bestseller, Mine Enemy Grows Older, a book of amusing, scurrilous reminiscences. His often witty, sometimes vulgar, hour-long weekly talk show on Manhattan...
When Donald Kleinschmidt, 29, a machinist, sat down to dinner in Haddon Heights, N.J. last Tuesday, his wife Margaret had filet of flounder for the family-twins Donald and Donna, 6, David, 4, and Dale, 3. Half an hour after dinner, the boys felt sick. Donald and Dale were the worst. Their father called for an ambulance, and their mother rode with them to Camden's Cooper Hospital. Dale had turned blue, and died on arrival. Resident Thomas L. Singley Jr., 27, concentrated on Donald, also blue. But 100% oxygen did no good, though his breathing was strong enough...
...unhappy bull, Sick in soul and body both, Slouching in the undergrowth Of the forest beautiful, Banished from the herd he led, Bulls and cows a thousand head...
...Mutual's Skutt, heading off compulsory Government health insurance is not the real satisfaction of his job. That satisfaction he finds in working out new ways of attaining old objectives. "In the old days," he says, "when a person got sick, he looked to his neighbors for help. Now, in our more complicated society, that is usually not possible. We like to feel that we are the good neighbor...