Word: sicked
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...kind of crusty, frozen snow that covered the course. But Third Place Finisher Eero Maentyranta of Finland, who won the same brutally taxing race at Innsbruck in 1964, allowed that wax was not his problem. Said he: "I was so exhausted I had to stop and be sick...
...osteopath, or an optometrist, or a chiropodist, or a minister, or a research scientist. Or, you can be something else helpful, like a farmer, or an apprentice riveter, or a glass-blower, or the Vice President of the United States. The Selective Service makes the rules: how sick you can be, how crazy, how tall, how immoral, how ignorant, how conscientious...
...comedy of anguish has opened on Broadway. Peter Nichols' Joe Egg turns blistering pain into bubbling laughter as it focuses on the vastly uncomic plight of two parents whose ten-year-old child is a spastic vegetable. While this might appear to be the epitome of black and sick comedy, the play is neither, though it is full of the modern humor of cruelty and the games people play to put each other on or down...
...three Midwest department-store chains, was having a rough time trying to fight its way out of the Depression. And while the company struggled to stay solvent, Cantor rose steadily through a series of management upheavals. He became president in 1952, well aware that he had "a very sick company" on his hands. He prescribed heavy cost cutting and an all-out push into the then new wave in retailing: discounting...
...found that "records" of the "cases" in Yoder's office were defective. Then it developed that Yoder, who has been 90% blind since child hood from a sand-lot baseball injury, had fabricated the story to drive home the dangers of LSD. Suspended from his post, "distraught and sick," Yoder had himself admitted to the Philadelphia Psychiatric Center...