Word: sicklies
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Sisters of the Order of Mercy: founded in Dublin, Ireland in 1831, they specialize in visiting the sick and imprisoned, managing hospitals and orphanages. U.S. membership: 5,236 professed sisters...
From this time (1937) forward, Peter went about his Father's business at the whirlwind pace of a religious tycoon. When he was not converting a sin-sick Senator, he was charging down to Annapolis to read a sizzling sermon over the midshipmen, or bellowing Mairzy Boats at the church canteen for servicemen, or batting out flies with the kids on the parking lot, or marrying some sailor and his girl, or harrying the hangbacks on his board of trustees...
...year-old gaffer who got a pass from the geriatrics ward of Limerick City Home and Hospital last week hobbled down the street with the same fixed purpose as many another Irishman, sick or well. He was heading for the nearest bookie to bet a tanner or a bob on the Grand National. "The sixpenny bet," said an authority on Fitzwilliam Square (Dublin's Harley Street), "is a great piece of therapy. It keeps them living-to see if their horse wins." Last Saturday, as Quare Times won at Aintree (see SPORT), the Irish hospitals won straight across...
...gaudy a virtue finally turns it into something of a vice. The play, in exchange for abounding in theatrical trapdoors, loses the slow, relentless, staircase-climb of drama. Too much explodes, too little uncoils; much more is highlighted than truly plumbed. There is no law that the more sick and tormented the subject matter, the more severe should be the approach; but even most of Elizabethan drama, for all its blaze of poetry, foundered from an undisciplined portrayal of disordered lives. The disturbed people in Cat on a Hot Tin Roof seldom become truly disturbing; the audience merely reacts where...
There were various reasons for this. The trials were conducted "by officials sick with the weariness left by a great war." The code that governed them was a mongrel code, "a compromise between the English and American procedures." It proved to be diametrically opposed to democratic German law because it bound the accused men, on pain of perjury, to speak the truth on oath, whereas German law would have given them .the right to lie to the full in their own defense. To the prisoners and their many supporters in Germany, Nuremberg was a put-up piece of legal chicanery...