Word: sicklies
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...shortly after word was received that Joe was in the Bethesda Naval Hospital. He had, it was said, banged his right elbow against a glass-top table while shaking hands with an enthusiastic admirer when he was back in Wisconsin for the weekend. Visitors to the sick room reported that Joe's illness made him unable to converse satisfactorily about the censure movement (the congressional doctor reported that McCarthy "could possibly" have an infection...
Most of the doctors make such small salaries from government hospitals and the laborers' free-care institutes that they maintain private practices on the side. But with Brazil's spectacular rise in the cost of living, working-class sick or injured now flock to the free-care centers and private practice has sagged...
...Luminous Sacred Hearts that glow in the dark. "So comforting for the sick." says the manufacturer's circular. "Hot traffic builder-always in demand...
Connle Mack signed the last paper from his sick bed and will receive $604,000 personally. Johnson said he would use an additional one million dollars to build the Athletics into a first division team...
...Harkless' voice has natural limitations that have not yet been corrected or turned to more effective use. The very thick and rich sound he produces cannot trace the delicate line of Schumann's Mondnacht nor suggest the naivete of Schubert's love-sick miller. In the lower limits of his range, notes lose their individuality and produce an unpleasant drone. Above his beautiful middle voice, Harkless' pitch control gets out of hand, with climatic high notes sometimes painfully flat. In short, he knows what effects to strive for, but he can not always command them...