Word: sicklies
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...income tax. Appearing near by in a summer theater production of You Can't Take It With You, Coburn lamented that he cannot even keep it while he is alive. "I have paid $1,000,000 in federal income taxes in 15 years, and yet if I am sick one year I am bankrupt," cried he, jowls atremble...
...four years at the Missionary Training Institute in Nyack, N.Y., cramming all the medical-aid courses she could find. Three times she was set to leave for Africa when the trip was canceled at the last moment. Finally, she wound up in Tennessee's Cumberland Mountains, nursing the sick, teaching the Bible, and making clothes for the dirt-poor cabin dwellers...
...parsonage, school and dispensary, Granny went ,"on trail." Outfitted in a tropical helmet and web belt with water flask, she would visit the tiny thatched cailles that dot the ravines and mountains. She told the surprised Haitians about the dispensary and the need to come immediately when they were sick or hurt. She told them about the school. And wherever she could she would wage a persistent Protestant war against the voodoo gods, Papa Legba (who is interlocutor between men and the gods), Maitresse Erzulie (of love) and Damballa Wedo (the good serpent of the sky), and against the houngans...
...Ubico, who despised most of his officers and carefully confined them to quarters whenever he left the capital. "You can't imagine what it is like to live under a dictatorship," recalls Arbenz, whose police last week were freely murdering and jailing his political opponents. In 1944, sick of Ubico, Arbenz resigned his captain's Commission, took to plotting in desultory fashion, and soon found it expedient to retire for a time to El Salvador. A nonviolent general strike finally eased Ubico out, but equally tyrannical General Federico Ponce replaced...
Once upon a time a multitude of souls, sick & tired of living in eternity, decided to visit God and demand a showdown...