Word: sicklies
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...time-honored symptoms of "shell shock" and "combat fatigue" a new complication has been added: "rotation fever." Tom, 19, a draftee from the Midwest, was checking off on a pocket calendar the days before he would go home. Then the Communists struck. Tom was not hurt, but he got sick. He vomited, ached all over and shook like a leaf. He was soon passed back to Psychiatrist Lavin of the 7th Division...
...care of the sick, advice, and teaching of common sense principles in regard to health...
Known as Struthof-Natzweiler, the camp, hidden in a thick wood in the Vosges foothills, was equipped with a "laboratory," where prisoners were inoculated with plague, typhus and leprosy germs, blinded, gassed and otherwise deliberately injured, so that their sick and dying spasms could be observed through glass windows by German "professors." Since then, though the French have searched far & wide for the Struthof professors, they have caught only three. Last week in Metz, a French military court heard the Struthof case. Said Dr. Otto Bickenbach, onetime Heidelberg faculty member, accused of giving poison gas to prisoners: "I could have...
...next six months, the doctors had plenty of opportunity to study the illness. In the wine-growing villages around Bordeaux and farther north in the fishing and farming villages of Brittany, there were scores of sick, red-rashed babies. Some, like little François, died. The doctors, casting around for a cause of the illness, advised mothers to stop using this or that medication. But it was pure luck that finally pointed to the cause. Three Breton doctors with a dozen sick babies on their hands noted that all the babies had been treated with Baumol. They reported their...
...whispered charges of Lesbianism and her grandmother's shouted ones, The Children's Hour is something more than shocking, as it is something more than tense. Despite its heightened stage qualities, it cuts sharply back into life-to the monstrous power of gossip, to the sick, psychopathic nature of evil, to how calamitously the upright people of the world-such as the grandmother-can blunder...