Word: sicklies
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...ghastly battle of the South Koreans and Chinese Reds for the strategic ridges north of Kumhwa went into its seventh week. U.S. corps officers and liaison men who had seen it were sick and sad at heart. Said an A.P. dispatch: "Some [U.S. officers] have wept as pitiful remnants of full companies dragged their way back down the shell-blasted slopes of Triangle Hill and Sniper Ridge. Combat rifle companies are sprinkled heavily now with green replacements...
Four years later, in 1933, he got the tough job of curing the sick Buick division. Buick had been plagued by a series of poor-selling cars (the "pregnant Buick"); its sales had dropped 85%. With his knowledge of design and sales, Curtice put out a new series that caught on immediately, doubled Buick's sales in one year...
...commonest type of case is believed to be like the first U.S. record: the baby who gets the disease in the womb from a mother who has a smoldering, low-grade infection. The baby may be sick at birth, or not until a few weeks later. In either event, the tiny Toxoplasma invaders usually cause inflammation of the brain and spinal cord so severe that it is crippling if not fatal. (Later children of the same mother are believed to be safe because she develops antibodies...
Sure that the goat loved him, the poor man let her visit the rich man whenever she liked. One winter day, the goat took sick. The poor man carried her to the rich man's house and let her stay there through the stormy night. The next day he waited for her to come home. He wanted her to come of her own free will, of her own free love. Being only a goat, she forgot to, and stayed at the rich man's house, while the poor man led a life of complete dejection, without even...
Replying to Caldwell's statement that American Literature is "an untamed, rampaging creature," Lewisohn said that he was sick of reading contemporary Zolas...