Word: sicklies
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...ollege campuses and grade-school playgrounds in all parts of the U.S. last week, youngsters - and many of their elders - were laughing at a new kind of joke that had spread across the nation with appalling thoroughness. Called variously sick stories, gruesome jokes or Bloody Marys, these gags get their laughs by making fun of decapitations, amputation, disease, death - in short, every variety of horror-provoking subject dealing with physical disability. The jokes range from the mild to the bloodthirsty. Samples...
...much as a third of the orchestra was sick at one time, probably with the Eastern malady known as "Delhi belly," but all performed manfully. At an open-air concert in Baghdad, a band of yelping dogs competed so successfully that at the concert's end Dorati fled from the podium in a huff, a case of dogs beat...
...change a nigger a few hours a day in school. Their families are the same way. Dirty, lazy, sick. More venereal disease, more rapes, more murders, more drinking, more crime, just plain more trouble than whites, all the time. That's statistics, too. You can look it up. It may be our fault they're that way. Maybe the whites should feel responsible. I don't say we're not. I guess most of the trouble is that they're all so poor you folks up here couldn't understand it, and they've always been poor, and they...
...said he has high hopes for Brian Havey of Newton who has been sick and is not yet in condition; also for Bruce Nystrom and Bob Nelson. "Nelson's from my hometown, Mill Valley, Calif.," he noted, "he can't miss being good...
Reider was taken sick while competing in Israel two weeks ago and has not yet regained the weight he lost at that time. Brown was a consistent leader in early season time trials until afflicted with a chest cold last weekend. He has not had a hard workout since, and, although sufficiently recovered to run today, he remains something of an uncertain quantity...