Word: sicklies
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...hospital in Bethesda, was treated for a variety of ills. He lost weight, with his wife's devoted help tapered off on drinking after doctors told him that he had cirrhosis of the liver. But it was too late to go back: Joe McCarthy was a sick man. Once capable of frenetic energies, he found that a single Senate speech (a lone, weak attempt to prevent the promotion of an old target, Ralph Zwicker, to major general) was so exhausting that he had to rest...
...clouded scenes, or give a face to his sense of lostness, A Moon stirs to life. But mostly it lies dead; and something a little too decent in everyone's basic motives makes A Moon soft as well as enfeebled. There is no tumble and toss of sick, bitter, angry, thwarted, even petrified emotions. Everywhere there is a sense of O'Neill's honest compassion, but nowhere is there anything incandescently imagined or inextinguishably remembered. Words fumble through fog, or have a dated slanginess which, lacking all poetry, sinks almost to parody...
...smoking wreckage of his tiny biplane and inspected his shattered leg. "I won't be able to play rugger on Saturday." Cadet Bader was right. By Saturday both his legs were off. "Sssh!" he heard a nurse say. "There's a boy dying in there." The sick man stiffened. "Dying! We'll see," he thought grimly, and began to fight for his life...
...fortune in the restaurant business and in real estate, but most of all for having specified in his $1,300,000 will that after 25 years the residue of his estate should be used to found a hospital "to be called the Brigham Hospital for the care of sick persons in indigent circumstances." (Both his career and his philanthropic example were closely followed by a nephew, so Boston also has the Robert B. Brigham Hospital, for incurable diseases...
...Infections after burns delay healing, make skin grafts slough off faster, and may turn a superficial burn into a deep one. Researchers at Glasgow's Royal Hospital for Sick Children, searching for a locally applied antiseptic that would kill germs without destroying tissue, report best results with a weak solution of chlorhexidine, now use it in preference to all other methods of treating burns and scalds...