Word: sicklies
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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That afternoon, after resting in the infirmary for three hours under sedation, the Indian delegate was back again, helped to his seat in the Council room on the strong arms of two associates. His doctor said he was "a very sick man" who. had been working too hard while sustaining himself on "about 30 cups of tea a day, absorbing all of the salt in his body." Once back in his seat, Menon expressed a desire to speak for ten minutes and promptly launched into a speech that lasted just short of an hour...
...exactly one-half of the time Prime Minister Ishibashi has been in office, he has been laid up with bronchial pneumonia. Last week, after elbowing their way through a crowd of spectators jamming the garden and the street outside, four doctors politely took off their shoes and entered the sick Premier's Tokyo home to make an official examination. "Apparently the main problem is his heart," the Premier's chief aide announced to the public thronging the garden...
...Princeton presidents had expired within five years back in the 1700s. Then he quoted from a letter, hopefully quilled by Princeton's trustees to a presidential prospect in 1766. The missive's gist: Don't let our weather scare you; those other four men were all sick when they took the job. Princeton's Dodds, however, recalled the short careers of those predecessors of his, claimed that three of the four deceased were Yalemen, presumably in ill health from their undergraduate days...
...addition to the 20 undergraduates in the infirmary, five members of the dining hall staff are also sick. Since the possibility of transmission by a member of the kitchen staff was not established, officials assumed that the disease was due to a particularly bad shipment of food...
...Sick Shell. Duncan gets a sense of dislocation as soon as he hits the once-sleepy town of Bradysboro and hears a booster babbling about the "threshold of a new era." At his family's disintegrating tobacco plantation, he finds his father a sick shell, echoing with remembrances of the South's past and pointedly deaf to the whistle of a passing train. Duncan's sister is about to marry a progressive-minded preacher who is less interested in racial equality than he is in evening the score with erstwhile "first families" like the Welshes. Logan...