Word: sicklies
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Chinese people are sick & tired of war. The hopeful observers came to believe that the government would welcome some kind of face-saving truce proposal (unspecified) by a neutral such as India...
...have been eagerly following your presidential nominations, and . . . may I make an unorthodox suggestion? . . . The men have not succeeded in making this beautiful world a safe and happy place to live in. The world is sick and bordering on insanity. Only with gentle nursing will this world survive. And, therefore, the time has come for woman leadership...
...line-up in Dachau one morning, the Nazi guard ordered the sick and disabled to form on the left, the able-bodied on the right. An instinct of danger swept over one-armed Kurt Schumacher. He stepped to the right and marched off with the ablebodied. The men on the left were never seen alive again. By 1943, so ill and ravaged that the Nazis set him free to go home to his sister's in Hannover to die, he was a pitiful walking cadaver, with ulcers, yellowing stumps for teeth, flickering eyesight. Schumacher still carried...
Last year, before the House Un-American Activities Committee, Garfield said: "I have always hated Communism ... I am not, never have been a [Party] member." The committee was not entirely convinced, but he was already a sick man who had suffered a heart attack and been warned to take it easy...
...nothing of the polish, can be worked in later. He introduced many minor characters by name only, breathing a mere suggestion of life into them. Lamiel was beginning to look more & more like the plan of one of Balzac's great social histories when Stendhal suddenly took sick and died...