Word: sicklies
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...finding new and increasingly fantastic employment with every passing day. They string power lines across peaks of the high Rockies, and thresh slowly over northern Canada doing mineral surveys from the air. They have landed yellow-fever vaccine in Costa Rican jungle clearings, and have plucked sick, wounded or stranded men from mountain ledges, deep canyons, flood areas and sinking ships all over the world...
...Toronto, radio station CHUM daringly dropped all its western serials, quiz programs and disk jockeys, to concentrate on "melodic" music and news. Explained Program Director Mrs. Leigh Lee: "We think there is a big audience that is sick to death of too much disk-jockey chatter. No one cares a damn that Eddie Fisher was wearing pajamas when he cut this disk, or that Hugo Winterhalter broke three fingers while conducting a number. By playing purely music we may bring back that lost audience...
...believes that Gradėre is not yet lost: the local priest to whom he confesses his sins. "No human being is damned," the priest says. "You must realize the astonishing nature of that grace whose beneficiary you are." At the end, sick of a mortal illness, "the murderer lay . . . with a smile of heavenly peace upon his lips," and said, "I am dying in peace ... in a peace beyond imagining...
...takes the reader to the annual Interns' Ball, one of the most remarkable orgies allowed anywhere in the world. But as in U.S. novels about young doctors, Jean decides at the end that he wants to settle down with a nice girl and devote himself to curing the sick. Few readers will have to be told that French Author Andre Soubiran is the director of a pharmaceutical firm to realize how expert he is at dispensing bromides...
...problem in the country are just as discontented because people who use the Amendment often face social punishment as onerous as any jail sentence. The great bulk of American opinion lies between these two extremes. It is confused about the existence and extent of any Internal conspiracy, but sick and tired of hearing witnesses say: "I refuse to answer because my answer may tend to incriminate...