Word: sicking
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Earnest Request." Francis would not. Lewis turned to the Cleveland Trust Co., trustee of the estate which owns substantial shares in Island Creek. This time he delivered himself of "an earnest request to stop Mr. Francis from running amok and making war on the sick and injured in the mining industry." The bank flatly refused...
...wording it: the TV show called Blues by Bargy appears "at various hours" during the week. Tall, limpid-eyed Singer-Pianist Jeanne Bargy, 27, describes her eight months with CBS more bluntly: "I'm a fillin. Whenever they have an odd quarter-hour or when someone is sick, they get in touch with...
...Henri Philippe Pétain, wife of the old Marshal of Verdun and Vichy, now sharing his exile on the Ile d'Yeu, brushed aside rumors that her 93-year-old husband was so sick that he might not live out the winter. The old warrior still has "no complaints," she reported, but "he is eating his heart out with loneliness. He never sees anyone except me . . . He read the Churchill memoirs, but don't ask me what he said about them. Churchill is a great Englishman-but there, he is an Englishman, and that...
Among the viruses (which cause such familiar diseases as measles, chickenpox, colds, influenza and mumps) are many which prove more damaging to a healthy body. Sick chickens are more resistant to cancer than healthy ones. Undernourished guinea pigs are better able to ward off foot-and-mouth disease...
That Midnight Kiss (M-G-M). Producer Joe ("No one's going to get sick or die in my movies") Pasternak is an expert at turning out box-office musicals (Three Daring Daughters, In the Good Old Summertime). His favorite theme is the American dream that the tot on the living-room floor may one day turn out to be another Schnabel or Flagstad. In this case, the American living room is the usual Pasternak plush job, heavily furnished with grand pianos, helpful celebrities and enthusiastic prodigies...