Word: sicklies
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Sick Feeling. Earl Warren's own views on the race question do not necessarily indicate that he will vote to ban segregation in the schools. Some lawyers who are against segregation nevertheless maintain that each state should have the right to fix its own educational policies. In weighing such questions of law, Warren can call on wide experience as a prosecutor and administrator, but little background in private law practice, and no previous service on the bench. He was in private practice for just three years after he graduated from law school, and once admitted that court appearances terrified...
...lost their appetite on sugar pills as on the drug. One suffered "overwhelming weakness, palpitation and nausea" within a few minutes of taking either. Another had pain, diarrhea, itching and swelling of the lips ten minutes after either kind of pill. All this means that if a patient gets sick after taking a drug, it may not be the drug's fault...
...said. But escape was not easy. Albania, according to Athanassios, is locked tight in the grip of 400 Russian civilians who completely control the government and the economy, and another 150 Russian officers who run the army and the police. The native population is for the most part sick with starvation, tuberculosis or plain terror. "It is almost impossible to avoid the security police who are everywhere," says Athanassios. "You can't even trust your own brother...
...greatest playwright in U.S. history died last week. The scene of his death, as depressing as any in his 47 plays, was a Boston hotel, where he had been living for the past two years, too sick to write. By his bedside, when a final attack of pneumonia felled him, were his doctor, a nurse, and his third wife, with whom he had quarreled bitterly (two years ago he unsuccessfully tried to have her committed to a mental hospital). .His children were dead or far away. His name, once a clarion call, threatened to be drowned out by the tinny...
...April, courage could no longer stave off defeat for sick and starving men. On April 9 Bataan fell, on May 6 Wainwright surrendered Corregidor. The Japanese high command had set a Feb. 1 deadline for the conquest of Luzon, and the men of Bataan had upset that timetable. They had proved that the Japanese could be stopped. And out of their defeat they had fashioned an enduring American epic...