Word: sicking
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Lausanne was the first conspicuous failure of British diplomacy in more than a century. Greek troops had been permitted to occupy Smyrna and Anatolia in 1919 and 1920. The Treaty of Sèvres imposed terms so severe that British policy seemed to have succeeded in strangling the sick man of Europe in his sick-bed in Asia Minor...
...psychological effect of Morgan's thundering loan was decisive. It was never expected that the full sum would be used. A large portion of the loan was used, approximately $33,000,000, nearly all of which has been repaid. When the devil was sick...
...first group of etchings contains the masterly "Raising of Lazarus" and the very famous "Hundred Guilder Print", representing Christ healing the sick. Among the landscapes on exhibition are "Three Trees", the "Cottage and Dutch Bay-barn", and the "Gold-weigher's Field", Portraits fo the artist himself, his mother, and the men of his time--Sutma, Sylvius, and his friend, the Burgomaster Six, are also included...
...good game for the Blue, failed to scintillate due to his being so well covered by Captain Lightbourn of the Crimson quintet. The showing of Leekley, who tossed two field goals and six fouls through the basket, is all the more remarkable because he had just come from a sick...
...Sick King Vittorio Emanuele and his eldest son, Crown Prince Umberto, were confined to their beds with influenza. At Villa Savoya, the home of the Italian Royal Family, which lies just outside the Eternal City...