Word: sicklies
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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French Flight Nurse Genèvive de Galard-Terraube, 29, rejecting the label of "angel" despite her 56 days of selfless ministration to the sick and wounded in Dienbienphu, arrived to visit the U.S. at the invitation of the U.S. Congress.* In Manhattan, Nurse Geneviève was treated to a parade up lower Broadway. Next day she hopped down to Washington and was soon sitting in the front row of the House of Representatives' diplomatic gallery. Gleefully getting around an inflexible House rule that no gallery visitor may be introduced or even pointed out, Minnesota's Republican...
...Very Sick Man." After he testified before the grand jury, Garrett dropped out of the public eye. Then, one day, Garrett's father, Judge Coma Garrett Jr., finally revealed where his son had gone: to John Sealy Hospital in Galveston, Texas for psychiatric care. Said Judge Garrett: his son's physician believed he was a "very sick man mentally." The judge also gave Alabamans the disquieting news that their attorney general had spent two months of his term (August and September 1953) in the Sealy Hospital undergoing mental care...
...such an atmosphere, the French and Communists quickly settled preliminaries (e.g., an exchange of sick and wounded prisoners) that had taken months to negotiate at Panmunjom. Then they agreed to discuss "readjustment of zones and regrouping of forces," meaning the abandonment of more Vietnamese land to Communism. At last, one top-ranking Vietnamese cried out: "Why should we stay here like puppets while the French give away our country?" Fear in the City. But the giving away went on. The French government deferred sending needed reinforcements to the Red River Delta. British and U.S. consuls advised their nationals...
...instability of this arrangement was obvious, and made all the more so by Castillo Armas' triumphal reception in the capital. Sick of Red terrorism and full of respect for a fighting, anti-Communist crusader, the people quite plainly preferred Castillo Armas to Palace Revolutionary Monzón. "Libertador!" they hailed the little colonel...
...jealous sister now has the secret weapon she wants. Before the next day is out. the first mother pounds on the schoolhouse door sputtering about "galloping consumption." Sick at heart, Nora takes to her bed half-convinced that the family curse has indeed caught up with her. And now the kindly village priest appears, trying to get Nora back on her feet...