Word: sicklies
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...days later, the President of the U.S. all but fulfilled the steelworker's wish by summoning the top men on both sides of the steel strike to the White House for head-banging sessions. "I am getting sick and tired of the apparent impasse," Ike told his press conference, and "so are the American people...
...unmercifully. I beat her with my left. I beat her with my right. She fell to the floor. I picked her up and shook her. I threw her into the bunk. I heard a knock on the door and asked her to reply. She said she was too sick and wasn't going to dinner." Then, said Van Rie, he left her, still alive. At all times he denied that he had picked her up and thrown her into...
...judges at his trial permitted Castro to act as counsel for himself and the accused rebels. But after only the second session, two doctors showed up at Castro's cell one night and signed a certificate stating that he was sick and couldn't attend the court sessions. He was held in solitary confinement for 76 days, then brought to a secret trial at Civil Hospital, with neither the press nor counsel permitted...
...keep some Chevy plants running to Nov. 1. Chrysler said it will start shutting down in November. Even Ford, which makes 40% of its steel at the integrated Rouge plant, expects to be hit by early December. This week at his press conference President Eisenhower said he was "getting sick and tired of the apparent impasse." Free collective bargaining, added Ike, "the logical recourse of a free people in settling industrial disputes, has apparently broken down." The President strongly suggested that the Administration would now step in if labor and management failed to reach agreement...
...tuberculosis patients from all over the world. How many fail to return is suggested by the popular nickname of the place: "the cemetery of Europe." In this macabre mountain spot appears the novel's hero: Paul Davenant, a British World War II veteran, lately a Cambridge student, now sick and broke. He is a charity case who, with many others, is supported by an international student association at a sanatorium called Les Alpes. Davenant hopes, as do all the patients, that Les Alpes is only an interlude, a place where bracing air, good food, and the wonders of modern...