Word: sicklies
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Conspirators. In Bern, which was teeming with spies, counterspies, exiles and dissidents from a dozen regimes, Dulles set up OSS headquarters for Europe. Often sick with the gout, Dulles worked late into the night, meeting agents under the cover of darkness. In time, his office became a center of the European Resistance, and one of the biggest and most effective intelligence-gathering units in the Allied world...
Nothing makes the sick U.S. coal industry sicker than the prospect of a new wage demand by John L. Lewis' United Mine Workers. Last week, with the time for reopening of negotiations only a few days away, Joseph E. Moody, president of the Southern Coal Producers Association, gave Lewis an angry warning...
...surprised by the large numbers of seemingly hale & hearty people who prove on examination to need medical care. Indeed, this fact is the basis of doctors' urgings to all to have regular checkups. Sometimes, however, such examinations are equally valuable because they show that individuals who think themselves sick are really well...
Life Comes First. N.I.H. Director William H. Sebrell summed up the center's purposes: "You don't get into this hospital just because you're sick. Medical care is incident to study here. We're not interested in rare, exotic diseases, but in those that damage and kill the most Americans." However, the patient's welfare comes first. If any of the center's 90 physicians has to choose between going on with research and immediate measures to save a patient's life or well being, he will ditch the research. And though...
...come. Members of the family who ask the minister to pretend that he just happened to drop in are no help. Inexperienced ministers are likeliest to agree to this deception: "They come breezing in as though by chance, express astonishment at finding someone of the household sick, and, of course, under the circumstances cannot bear any burden of the seriousness of the situation." Other hazards are people faking illness, and designing women: "There have been quite well substantiated cases in which women have staged a sickness to entice the minister. Enough said...