Word: sicklies
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Soviet army reversals in the first six months of World War II, a debacle which cost four or five million Russian lives and lost most of European Russia to the Nazis. By the time the Russians, by a superhuman effort, had reversed the balance, the whole country was literally sick of autocracy. There were murmurs of dissent, attempts to guide Stalin along other paths. But the mysterious demise of a number of high Politburo-crats halted any defiance from on high. The result was, says Robert C. Tucker, who spent 5½years in the U.S. embassy in Moscow...
...Kahn developed a test for syphilis that largely replaced the cumbersome Wassermann, in 1951 published a theory that could be a major step toward the early detection of disease. His "universal blood reaction" theory: a healthy person's system produces antibodies in a definite, ascertainable pattern. In a sick person antibodies form faster and in different patterns. If science can determine how the pattern changes from health to various diseases, doctors will be able to identify the disease long before recognizable symptoms appear...
Then Boston's luck abruptly vanished. "On the first night out of Bermuda it got rough. Two days later it got really rough. I couldn't eat. I couldn't sleep. My engine quit, but I was so sick I couldn't fix it. The loss of food and rest were doing things to me. The jaundice I had at Port Said returned. I got a touch of the malaria that had bothered me during the war. I got delirious-semiconscious, you could even...
Finally, 400 miles south of Bermuda, Boston gave up, wearily turned about and headed for Swampscott. Then he sprawled for three days on his bunk, too sick to set a course. "I heard the awesome sound of whale spouts in the fog. I felt that I was going up and down into nothing...
Knorke was 17 months old and a sick gorilla when Nurse Rosemarie Hohler first saw him. Bought by the West Berlin Zoo to replace Pongo, its prewar gorilla bayoneted to death by Russian soldiers, Knorke had been flown in from the French Cameroons, and had promptly fallen sick of paratyphoid fever. Zoo officials sent Knorke to the City Hospital, put the sad little ape in quarantine in a sealed-off room, and explained that paratyphoid, though usually only a mild human disorder, can be fatal to gorillas. Looking compassionately at Knorke, 24-year-old Rosemarie volunteered to go into quarantine...