Word: sicklies
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...heavy busbies and flaming tunics paraded back & forth on sentry-go, the people talked among themselves in the hushed tones of relatives in a hospital anteroom. "He hasn't looked well for the longest time," said one old lady with an air of authority. "He must be very sick, God bless him," said another...
...there was no point in waiting any longer. In a soupy fog, with the tides unfavorable and the waves white-capped, Florence helped smear herself with chill-cutting grease, adjusted her suction-cupped goggles and waded into the black water off Dover. Three hours out, she was a very sick girl. Said father Chadwick: "She was vomiting every third stroke." Pills did not help, but finally one of her trainers spotted the jinx: fumes from a leaky gasoline line of an accompanying motorboat. Florence recovered as soon as the boat drew away. While her pilot boat almost lost...
...Sick plants are like sick children. They get hot and feverish when they don't feel well. Last week the University of California's Professor C. E. Yarwood told how he put leaves of healthy plants in a well-insulated container and measured their temperature after four hours. He found that the respiration of the leaves (their "breathing" of oygen) had raised their temperature at most 2.7° F. above the outside air. Then he put sick leaves, infected with virus or fungus diseases, in the chamber. In four hours they were running temperatures...
...James Jefferson Davis Hall was 75 and sick in bed the day the phone rang. Moreover, it was a wrong number and the voice at the other end apologized. But something moved Hall to speak. "Hold on," he said, "you've got the right number. Are you a Christian...
...critical eye on one of the nation's most revered sacred cows: the medical profession. In the third installment of his continuing probe of U.S. manners & morals, Mankiewicz argues that medicine needs more physicians like eccentric Gary Grant, whose lavish clinic is run on the theory that the sick are guests, not inmates, and should never be wakened at 6 in the morning for compulsory baths and breakfasts...