Word: sicking
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...both of her two older sisters?who have joined the Peace Corps. But she expresses the consensus of her class in insisting that there is a more urgent need for service in U.S. cities. Even the suburbs need help, she adds wryly: "A lot of white suburban society is sick...
...French leader of this century could have risen to the time as he did. He was a hero because he seemed to outstare history, reversing trends and forces that had seemed irrevocable. In the decade since the general swept into power, France has been transformed from the sick man of Europe into a nation of rekindled purpose, seemingly strong, ambitious, cohesive...
...Army in North Africa and put the theatrical Monty in his place. Churchill's press officers set out to obliterate the fact that the Eighth Army had already won one battle at El Alamein and had the superiority to win others. Moreover, though Field Marshal Rommel was a sick and dispirited man commanding a weakened army, Churchill revived the myth of the invincible Desert Fox so that Monty would have to deal with a worthy foe. Even with the stage so cleverly set, Thompson charges that Monty still fought a static, overly cautious battle, sacrificing far too many...
...them new, each seemingly done in a different architectural mode without concern for the total environment, and all of them connected by a weird system of tunnels, reflects the different plans that different generations have proposed to fulfill the hospital's prime purpose: the service of the indigent sick...
Councillor Thomas H. D. Mahoney, chairman of the Council's nationwide search for a new manager, objected that a "sick man goes to the finest doctor he can get, not to an old friend." Danehy then shot back, "This is not a medical show...