Word: sicklies
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...three-room cabin clinging to the side of Powell Mountain in Cracker's Neck, Va., Bessie Dickenson sat at her quilting one night last week while her husband, Van Buren ("Dave") Dickenson, gaunt and sick at 72, listened to the radio. Suddenly Dave called out: "Bessie, listen to this. It says one of those boys has changed his mind and is coming home. I just know it's Ed." Said Bessie: "I just know it's Ed too, Dave." Later she mused, "Of course, I'll bet every mother listening thought the same thing...
...kids in the street sit watching with dull eyes as the vacation melts away like the ruins of a double ice-cream sundae too big to finish. Lennie, 12, looks disgustedly at his little brother. Their widowed mother has gone away for two days to take care of a sick relative, leaving Lennie in charge of Joey. Pretty soon Lennie and his pals are lost in an ornately gruesome game of getting rid of little brother...
...clock, neighbors clung to telephone poles and tree limbs, stood on ladders and clambered to rooftops to peer over a dense honeysuckle hedge into the yard. At noon, having dug out 3 ft. of dirt and a foot of quicklime, James stepped back with a sick sigh. A pair of undertakers, their pants legs rolled up, got down into the grave and lifted out a blue plastic bag. Inside was the fully clothed body of Bobby Greenlease. He had been shot once through the head, from behind...
...P.W.s (which is all they were required to do), but of their parents and home-town addresses as well. If this list passes from the Indian guards to the Polish and Czech members of the commission, the U.N.'s basic principle of "no forced repatriation" will look sick indeed: the Communists could simply tell the P.W.s, via explainers or the camp grapevine, to return home or accept reprisals against their families...
From these small adventures in utilitarian education, it has set out in the last half-century to accomplish a dizzying task -to embrace, instruct and elevate every child and seeking adult of all classes, all nationalities, all shades of intellectual capability: to teach the sick, the neurotic and the healthy, to inspire the genius and to give the sluggard some manual ability to earn a living. The problems which lie between this noble objective and its fulfillment, the differences between the men who attempt to carry it out and the politicians who control them, have shaped the New York school...