Word: sicklies
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...months in Japanese prison camps, undernourished, beaten and abused by his jailers. At the end of World War II, he was escorted by Russian troops from the prison camp at Sian, Manchuria. When he appeared on the deck of the U.S.S. Missouri, at the Japanese surrender, he was a sick skeleton weighing only...
Matter-of-factly, he recalled the first ugly weeks of capture. Sick from diarrhea, the Reds' prize prisoner was subjected to three relentless interrogations-one for a stretch of 68 hours, one for 44 hours, and one for 32 hours. His bottom got so sore that he sat for hours on his hands, until those, too, became swollen and sore...
...class: each year, with an average of 225 admissions, it discharges about 150 patients as recovered or substantially improved. But to the psychiatrists, the score (which could be boosted by accepting less difficult cases) is not so important as the bigger fact: each of the 150 represents a sick and troubled individual who had reached or passed the breaking point and has now been restored to his family, usually in as good mental health as before he fell ill, often better...
Payne Whitney psychiatrists divide their time almost equally among treatment, teaching and research. They study both the disordered workings of the sick mind itself and the relationships between emotions and physical illnesses, and between emotions and the chemicals in the blood, as well as neurological disorders and such special problems as alcoholism. The staff takes an active part in the treatment of patients throughout the general hospital. All the resident physicians are learning by experience what they need to know to become teachers and investigators as well as practicing psychiatrists. Staff members are on the faculty of Cornell University Medical...
There were also localized business slow downs, such as in Washington, D.C., where the federal payroll has been cut, in Kentucky and West Virginia, hurt by the sick coal industry, and in Hollywood...