Word: sicklies
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...third floor. It boasts a spacious living room done in pastel green, and is equipped with a fireplace, gold draperies, bookshelves and porcelain figurine table lamps, a bedroom, a kitchen and a sunroom. Nevertheless, Harry Truman, one of the healthiest Presidents in history, simply refused to get sick. Except for a one-week visit by Mohammed Mossadegh last year, the suite remained empty...
...massive scroll written entirely in Chinese, 2) a letter from a Chinese Anglican bishop who had not been to Korea, 3) the memory of a Chinese news broadcast during which two U.S. airmen had purportedly confessed to dropping germs. Had the dean actually seen anyone sick as a result of germ warfare? Well, no - "but I saw the brains of two children who had died from encephalitis, an unusual disease for this time of the year...
...Mile Stench. Pusan is a city of filth, poverty and disease-yet it is the major supply port of the Korean war. Its harbor is jampacked with ships from nearly a score of nations, bringing in fresh men and equipment, taking out the wounded and sick and wrecked or worn-out equipment. Pusan's days & nights are noisy with the clatter of U.S. military traffic, ancient taxis, rachitic streetcars (some from Atlanta), and the snorting and lowing of oxen. In dry weather dust all but obscures the city's one traffic light, which is attended by a listless...
...first time since a sudden and serious operation put him on the sick list last spring, Air Force Chief of Staff Hoyt S. Vandenberg visited his Pentagon office last week. If all goes well, he expects to be back on full-time duty next month or early in September...
...Mathias, huddled patiently in the stands, watched the start of the 1,500-meter race, at 10:30: "We could see the orange spurt when the gun started the runners, but the fog was so dense we could see nothing else." Fighting foot cramps and a sick stomach, Bob staggered across the finish line five minutes and eleven seconds later to clinch his title. When he got his wind back and found his mother, he said: "Mom, how did I ever get into this? I wouldn't do it again for a million dollars...