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Word: sicklies (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Judge. After only four years as a lawyer, Joe decided to run for circuit judge, at the age of 29. He made few speeches, but he met every farmer in the district. His specialty was sick cows. He would get the cow's symptoms, drive on to the next farm and ask the farmer what he would do for a cow with those symptoms. He kept a Dictaphone in his car, and as he drove away he would dictate a letter to the first farmer, giving the second farmer's advice as Joe's own. Both farmers...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: CONGRESS: Weighed in the Balance | 10/22/1951 | See Source »

Meanwhile, Superior Court spent the day clearing its docket of other cases. Proceedings were held up when an 80-year-old witness fell sick in court, and the McLeod trial was excused until today...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Dorm Thief Trial Again Postponed | 10/18/1951 | See Source »

...oldtimers, there came a faint but ringing echo from the regime of rape and rapaciousness. A shrunken man in his 70s stood before a court in law-abiding San Jose, Costa Rica, and paid a fine after conviction on a morals charge involving minor girls. The culprit was sick and lonely but no down & outer. An arrogant sybarite, wealthy from U.S. investments, with a fierce, bristling mustache, he gave his name to the court as Santos Matute...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: THE CARIBBEAN: Shrunken Santos | 10/15/1951 | See Source »

...glories of Greco-Roman art is the Venus Callipyge (Venus of the Beautiful Buttocks). The Greeks would have laughed themselves sick over the "dwindled-down derriere"*-and no doubt found a word...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Art: Venus Cacopyge | 10/15/1951 | See Source »

...share of parental troubles. Patsy Custis was a sick girl, subject to fits -she died at 17. Young John Custis, spoiled by a worshiping mama, ran to laziness; he preferred race horses and fancy clothes to studying at King's College in New York. With grim patience, his stepfather tried to set the boy right...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Mt. Vernon to Valley Forge | 10/15/1951 | See Source »

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