Word: sicklies
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Japanese naval power was bottled up in its own home waters. After months and years of island hopping, soldiers and sailors alike felt the elation of the coming kill. Yet South Pacific veterans also felt twinges of peculiar melancholy, which Historian Morison subtly senses and records: "You might be sick of the magnificent scenery, hate the steaming climate, and loathe the squawks of the white cockatoos; but something of you had been left behind, irrevocably; and you hated to think of the jungle taking over roads and airstrips ... As Virgil makes Aeneas deplore the city he had left and lost...
...wasn't sick, he explained to his roommate, "As it happens, I've never felt better. Each day, for the past two years, I have told myself to do something daring; but Cambridge seems to stifle me. For instance, four days ago, when I played checkers, I planned to use a decisive attack. I decided to get all my kings out of the back row, and move my men in sort of a phalanx. But I didn't know...
National strikes have always provided large amounts of copy for American newspapers. Now that the papers have finished printing stories about the steel strike, they can turn their attention to the sick railroad industry, where adamant unions face an even more adamant management over the now-familiar issues of work rules and wage hikes...
...railroad industry is sick, and its condition is becoming worse each year. With a series of confining regulations imposed by the ICC--rules far more effective at the turn of the century when the railroads were the only efficient means of transportation--the management must work under severe limitations. The ICC must approve changes in fares or in service; many a money-losing branch line still exists only through the grace of the Commission. And although the Transportation Act of 1958 supposedly gave the railroads a greater degree of freedom, the government still exercises a degree of control unparalleled...
Self-Portrait: When I Was Sick, Louis Corinth's etching with drypoint, magically creates--through brisk, vibrant strokes--the chilling atmosphere of the sick room. Kokotte by Otto Dix, is characterized by evanescent technique and incisive vision, not unlike Corinth's basically realistic style...