Word: sicking
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...asked us for help on an urgent transportation problem. "I am in a fix," Mr. Müller wrote. "My wife (with our 16-month-old child) wants to visit her aging parents at Ponta Delgada, São Miguel, Azores. My wife's parents are old and sick, and she wants to see them as soon as possible. Would you be kind enough to find out a way for her to travel by air from Venezuela to the Azores...
...young lawyer in the Department of Justice. He was just a friend in the office. They had gone to Baltimore to buy Judy a tailored suit. They had gone to Philadelphia still looking for a tailored suit. They had gone to Philadelphia to see a show. She had been sick on New Year's Eve. She had gone to the apartment to be sick and sleep. "You branded me as a spy and now you are trying to brand me as a harlot," she cried...
...hope in his heart of becoming a simple rancher. Like many a sagebrush Robin Hood, McCrea is bad only because he is good. He stakes a couple of settlers (Dorothy Malone and Henry Hull) to the cost of a new well, and, to feather the nest of a sick buddy, agrees to stick up just one more train. As helpers, he has a gang of really bad men, who try to doublecross him, and he has the single-minded love of a dingily blonde half-breed (Virginia Mayo...
...charged with complicity in a plot to overthrow the present regime and install his brother, ex-President Arnulfo Arias. But President Díaz failed to return the courtesy Harmodio had shown his son. Harmodio got the small-fry cell at the Model Jail. Last week Harmodio, a sick man, was moved to the hospital. Four days later, Brother Arnulfo was arrested for his part in the plot. This time police had no more regard for ex-presidential prerogatives: after one night in the headquarters cell, Arnulfo landed in the cell his brother had just vacated...
...doctors began by taking half a pint of blood from the sick girl, and transferring it in a standard vacuum blood container to the veins of the convict. Next, they took a pint of his blood, gave it to her. Then the exchange was made pint-for-pint for four days (a five-hour session each day) until a total of 9,000 cubic centimeters (18 pints) had been interchanged. Last week, the transfer over, the lifer went back to his cell, the girl to her Manhattan home...