Word: sicklies
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Crimson, though, came perilously close to defeat in its first national victory ever. Hoppin had been fighting a virus all during the motor trip from New York, and was still so sick when the team reached Toledo that he was unable to sail the first race...
Kubie concedes that it would be difficult to put such a program into practice. The people he wants to treat are not very sick, nor are they likely to recognize the nature of their symptoms. More often than not, they will object if a general practitioner advises psychiatric attention: too many people live with a primitive fear of insanity...
...take long to dig them up. Reporter Hill went to an outlying district, found that the dead, insane and bedridden sick had been voted. The paper covered its front page with printed registration records and poll slips to show the forged signatures...
milk to a sick native out of an old stone
Lapping up the adulation of her new post as high priestess, Irma is none too happy when Sam takes sick and the mission board orders the couple home for a test. To invoke her return, the natives toss hundreds of piglets into the volcano and finally even their own infants. Sure enough, back in Vermont Sam dies, and Irma heads for the island again...