Word: sicklies
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Figaro, pet cat at the Moser & Cotins advertising agency, began to look sick, was found to be suffering from ulcers...
...work quietly in Calcutta and Bombay as an obedient priest. War came, and he joined the R.A.F., not as a chaplain but as an aircraftman, since he believed that he could not, as a priest, exhort others to fight. But many operations had left him weak. He fell sick again and went back to South Africa...
Modern man worries so much about his ability to measure up to the challenges of his environment that he often, literally, worries himself sick. So believes Sir Charles Bickerton Blackburn, chancellor of Sydney University and grand old (78) man of Australian medicine, who sees patients when other doctors have not been able to decide what ails them. Most alarming, Physician Blackburn feels, is the fact that for the first time in history, man may have reached the point where he admits defeat in the face of great odds...
Joseph Americus Oneto, San Francisco bachelor, had a problem seven years ago. He worked a 44-hour week as a clerk in the city water department, but that still left a lot of spare time, and he was "sick of sitting in bars." Joe decided that the solution to his heavy-hanging leisure was painting. He began spending his weekends haunting San Francisco's galleries, and devoted his evenings to reading books on oil-painting technique and experimenting with brush and canvas. By 1950, he had taught himself enough to win the $1,000 first prize at the California...
...blow, but Father Sheen went to work in St. Patrick's, Peoria, one of the poorest parishes in town. He made his sick calls and administered the last rites, begged for contributions and celebrated Mass. His sermons were so popular that people had to come an hour early to get seats; he drew large crowds from other parishes (which did not make him popu lar with their priests). After nine months, Peoria's Bishop Dunne called Sheen and told him that he was to go teach at Catholic University. "I promised you to them three years...