Word: sicklies
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Accordingly, the 1952 platform contains clauses offering something to: ¶ Farmers, consumers, taxpayers, civil servants, investors, organized labor, doctors, advocates of socialized medicine, hunters, fishermen, conservationists, small businessmen, migrant workers, airline operators, automobile owners, shipowners, miners, veterans, students, immigrants, the crippled, the blind, the aged, the sick, the unemployed, and widows & orphans. ¶ East Germans & West Germans (the hope of unity), Poles, Czechs, Hungarians, Rumanians, Bulgars, Albanians, Lithuanians, Estonians, Latvians (the hope of liberty), Indians, Pakistanis, Japanese, Filipinos, Australians, New Zealanders, Israelis (continued aid), Arabs ("measures for the relief and reintegration of the Palestine refugees"), Latin Americans, Puerto Ricans, Alaskans...
Rope's End. In Washington, Marine Corps headquarters received a letter from 15-year-old Louis E. Lamprecht, who wanted to join up because "I'm sick and tired of unmilitary life...
Painter Bosch's versions of Hell are waist-deep in griffins, scarabs, metallic demons with forked tails, sinners whose truncated bodies are pierced by huge swords or impaled on giant musical instruments. Although he had his gentler moments on canvas, his earthly scenes abound in abandoned lovers, tortured sick men and money-loving monks, with a watching demon or two always close at hand. Through them runs a train of almost surrealistic symbolism, a cross patch of a witches' Sabbath and a psychoanalyst's nightmare, that has fascinated and baffled five centuries of art critics...
...much of their native custom as possible, e.g., Christian brides do not wear wedding rings, but tie a thread around their necks as Hindus do. The monastery itself has fitted snugly into the life of the surrounding communities. Local farmers now come there to get medicine for their sick and to look over the Catholic sanyasis' agricultural methods. Said one Salem Hindu: "They look more like our type of sanyasis. Maybe there's something in their religion." This is the kind of talk that Dom Philip likes to hear. "Christianity," he says, "was not founded by a European...
Alumni of Connecticut's Kent School remember a famous function-the night the headmaster sat in for a sick violinist at the prep school's dance. The Rev. Frederick Herbert Sill, priest of the Protestant Episcopal Order of the Holy Cross, fiddled till midnight so that his boys and their girls could dance to proper music. From the raised band platform he could also keep an eye on student manners. Any Kent boy who departed from propriety got a smart rap with the master's fiddle bow as he danced...