Word: sicklies
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Austerocrats. Some hopeful signs are beginning to appear. Up against it, the sick nations of South America have begun to produce men of austerity and courage, who are insisting that their people tighten their belts for a return to realistic economies. President Pedro Aramburu of Argentina, an eloquent preacher of the gospel of higher productivity, has in the past two months successfully resisted three large-scale strikes for increased wages...
...service, asking for me, leaving messages. But I never spoke up. I never called him back . . . When I finally met Dean, it was at a party. Where he was throwing himself around, acting the madman ... I took him aside and asked him, didn't he know he was sick? That he needed help? ... He knew he was sick, I gave him the name of an analyst, and he went." Another chap who still has an idée fixe about him, complained Brando, is Playwright Tennessee Williams, who cannot seem to accept the fact that Marlon...
...biggest catch in it was Upton Sinclair, most renowned of muckrakers. whose novel The Jungle had assaulted the citadels of the Chicago meatpackers with the near-violence of a near-vegetarian. The book had been intended as an attack on porkpacking capitalists; actually it made the U.S. not sick of capitalism but leery of canned meat. "I aimed at the public's heart, and by accident I hit it in the stomach," Crusader Sinclair sadly acknowledged. But The Jungle won him an invitation to Theodore Roosevelt's White House and the attention of the Kimbroughs...
...parroter of the Gospel, Elias displays an exceptional knowledge of the Scriptures. Two weeks after he began his meetings, he was drawing crowds of 2,000 and 3,000 people. With the jungle grapevine at work, word spread that he had the power of miracle healing, and hundreds of sick and maimed Africans in Rhodesia flocked to pray at his feet...
...another. This last quality crops out in many stories: the querulous man who has to go into the Army without having anyone to say goodbye to; the cabby who night after night watches out for the same group of drunks; the bartender who is paternally protective about his inept, sick handyman ("Don't die, you little son of a bitch...