Word: sicklies
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...writing music without having to think about a libretto. "After I get a couple more operas out of my system I will concentrate on concert music alone," he says. "But I'll never write to a deadline again. Trying to finish the concerto in time, I had a sick stomach for days. Zimbalist only had three weeks to memorize his part. He had a sick stomach...
...Mercy Bent. But there were satisfactions. Boy Scouts not only pledge themselves to perform a good deed daily but actually live up to their oath. If an old lady gets sick, they will appear at her door week after week as volunteer shoppers and errand boys ("The staying power of boys on mercy bent sometimes surprises me"). If a child is ill, they will drop in to play checkers or to deliver homemade jigsaw puzzles...
...rule in East Germany. Moscow's reaction was swift. Last week, the day before the bishop and five other German churchmen were due to leave, a wire arrived from Moscow's Bishop Nikolai: "I regret deeply to have to inform you that the Very Holy Patriarch is sick. This makes it impossible to receive you as planned." Germans were incensed at the turndown. Headlined West Berlin's Neue Zeitung: DIBELIUS EX-VITED. Added Der Tagesspiegel: "That's what we call Soviet coordination. Stalin runs a fever and the Patriarch has to take...
...poisonous secretion which makes a strange, strangling membrane grow across many a victim's throat. They got as far as developing a horse serum which could be used either as a preventive against the disease or as a remedy after it had struck. But so many people got sick from the serum itself that doctors hated to give it as a preventive unless they could be sure that it was really necessary. They needed a test to show whether a patient had acquired immunity to diphtheria...
...group from, of all persons, a Boston Municipal Court Justice. Watch and Ward men had again figured in book proceedings, by purchasing a copy of Erskine Caldwell's Tragic Ground. When the case was tried, however, Judge Elijah Adlow threw it out of court, commenting he was "sick of the whole situation...