Word: sicklies
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Molten incandescence," "submerged iridescence," "celestial," "arcadian," "skyrocketing" were some of the words that critics were using to describe, of all things, the symphony orchestra which for a decade had been the Sick Man of Chicago. Special object of the critics' delight: Fritz Reiner, 65, who became the orchestra's sixth permanent conductor last fall* and this week reaches the half way point in his first season...
...relentless prosecutor, convicted an average of 15 murderers a year, chased grafters out of office and into prison. But he drew no particular joy from his victories in criminal cases. Said he: "I never heard a jury bring in a verdict of guilty but that I felt sick at the pit of my stomach...
Answer: The world is getting pretty sick of propaganda conferences, and we will not be expected to sit there and listen to propaganda harangues...
...strong National Union of Railwaymen was making for the whole nation last week. Getting nowhere after months of negotiations with the boss-the government-the N.U.R.'s strapping Scottish Secretary Jim Campbell threatened to bring all British railways to a full stop over Christmas. "My men are sick, sore and sorry," he said. "They feel that they are on the losing end of nationalization...
...subtle relationships among patients in a Swedish hospital, was the surprising work of Ilona Karmel, a Polish graduate of Nazi concentration camps who wrote an adopted English that was both expert and moving. The other was Helen Fowler's The Intruder, an Australian novel about a mind-sick veteran and the family of his dead buddy. Another notable first was Mr. Nicholas, a whiplash dissection of a tyrannical London father by young (27) Briton Thomas Hinde. Two others, slickly competent, successful and considerably overrated by reviewers, were John Phillins' The Second Happiest Day and Charles Flood...