Word: sicklies
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...near. When the Nehru party finally got to Peking, it was learned that Nehru had ordered his secretary off the plane at the last minute, to make room for his personal physician. Last week, moving into one of the crises of his career, 64-year-old Nehru was sick...
Among his many patients in the East German town of Waltershausen, fiftyish Fritz Rudloff was known as a kind and gentle man. "He took real pride in healing the sick," said one of Rudloff's friends. But because he was only a male nurse and not a licensed doctor, Rudloff nursed a deep-seated resentment against those more qualified to heal than he. Beyond all of them, Rudloff resented most the stiffly disciplinarian chief surgeon at Waltershausen Municipal Hospital...
What started the Rockefeller Institute's Dr. Dubos on the new tack was a common and persistent question: Why is it that a man can carry around for years a throatful of disease-causing bacteria without getting sick, and then suddenly come down with a roaring infection caused by one of the bacteria he has harbored...
...leather belt for fidgeting during the sermon. The day beer was taken off Prohibition, Billy's father went to town and bought a case. Then, in an awesome atmosphere of ritual sacrifice, he forced Billy and one of his sisters to guzzle bottle after bottle until they were sick. "It was awful," recalls Billy. He has never touched it since...
...Macmillan; $4.25), takes a set of characters that might have been found in F. Scott Fitzgerald's wastebasket and imagines what became of them in the harsh morning after the tender night. Among the characters: a young, rich Greek god from the Middle West who is soul-sick for no clearly apparent reason; a flapper who literally sinks her teeth into nice young men; a nice young man; a Jewish intellectual who can't make up his mind whether he wants to be a quarter-miler or just a social climber. Comes the dawn, and the "lone eagles...