Word: sicklies
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...year-old son - had his polio shot . . . and seven days later, he got sick," Mrs. R. M. Adams of Puenten, Calif, wrote to us. She added an hour-by-hour report on her son's symptoms and made a fervent appeal for advice about polio vaccine. "I'm writing to you because TIME is the only place we were able to get any good information." Other worried mothers, we have heard, were told by family physicians: "You can get as much information as I have by reading TIME's MEDICINE section." Last week at the American Medical...
...said the President, is strong by power and by principle, dependent upon its caution and its wisdom. "By caution, I mean a prudent guard against fatuous expectations that a world, sick with ignorance, mutual fears and hates, can be miraculously cured by a single meeting. I mean a stern determination that we shall not be reckless and witless, relaxing our posture merely because a persistent foe may assume a smiling face and a soft voice. By wisdom, I mean a calm awareness that strength at home, strength in allies, strength in moral position, arm us in impregnable fashion to meet...
Colonial officials sneered. "Bourguiba's crazy and sick," said one. "There's no telling what he'll do." Added another: "The Neo-Destour is a fascist movement. Today their line is cooperation with us. But soon they'll start getting rid of their enemies. First it will be the Vieux Destour (nationalist extremists), then the Jews, then the French. All this enthusiasm has been a victory for France's policy. But it must stop at internal autonomy...
...Boxer Nova, now playing the part of a gangster in a Manhattan revival of Guys and Dolls, took umbrage at Flaherty's column. "When I read this article," said he, "I was completely sick. My friends were aghast . . . Since the article [appeared], doors have been closed in my face." Nova threw a counterpunch at Flaherty; he filed a $200,000 libel suit against him and the Hearst Publishing...
...Look, if you're gonna be sick anyway, wouldn't you rather be home than in a hospital...