Word: sicklies
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Communist leaders in East Germany grew sick with apprehension. Premier Otto Grotewohl publicly admitted that "temporary difficulties" had disorganized the supply of butter, margarine, sugar and meat. Then he made a public promise that sent the specter of Rudolf Slansky howling down the corridors of East German government departments: "[We] will ruthlessly remove all mistakes and shortcomings . . . Those who are guilty will face the consequences...
...Sick of Stalemate. The soldiers talk of their war just about as their generals do, and just about as well. There is one natural difference: the G.I. at the front takes a personal and more reluctant view of trying to end it with a ground offensive. But, to the depths of their beings, the men in the lines believe that it ought to be ended. Many of them are genuinely puzzled by the failure to end it by negotiation, and they say over & over that there must be some way to get the enemy to quit...
Much of the frustration begins at home. No soldier is long in Korea before he comes to share the general conviction that Americans at home are sick of the war and don't care how it ends or what happens to the men waging it. A visitor recently hazarded a guess that the American public was not so much sick of the war itself as sick of stalemate. A regimental chaplain who heard this remark said in answer: "If I could believe that, and could say it to these men with real conviction, it would do wonders...
...sick list included: King Tribhubana of Nepal, who flew to New Delhi for a consultation with his doctors; 17-year-old King Hussein of Jordan, who was excused from his military classes at Sandhurst to have a sinus operation in London; Finland's President Juho Paasikivi, 82, ordered by his doctors to take a week's rest when they decided he was working too hard; and Prince Bernhard of The Netherlands, ordered to forgo two of his favorite sports, skiing and horse jumping, because of a weak vertebra, the result of an old auto accident...
...last seven men each moved up one position, since third man Hadden Tomes was sick and could not make the trip. Nevertheless, they all won easily with the exception of Larry Brownell and Mike Ward, who had to go five games. Charlie Elliott and Johnny Rauh won in four games, and Guy Paschal, Bill Wister, and Steve Sonnabend won in three...