Word: sicklies
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...issue remained in doubt right up to the time of the exam on January 23. To complicate matters, MacLeish fell sick with a temperature of 103, and thus was not able to be at the exam...
...more than two years Wall Street's bond market has been sagging like a sick puppy. But last week U.S. Government bonds snapped back for the most hopeful sign of recovery in bond prices since late 1954. Long-term Government bonds scored the largest single day's advance since June 1953, shot up as much as if points during the week, a healthy gain for gilt-edge securities. Encouraged by that sharp rise, trading picked up swiftly in both corporate and municipal bonds. New issues moved quickly into investment portfolios, and many municipal bonds sold out completely...
...Heart. In Birmingham, after he recovered from seven doses of arsenic poured by his wife while he was sick, William Oliver agreed that she be released in his custody for four years, rather than serve a two-year prison term, commented fondly: "I love my wife now more than ever...
...declined to move from the family home into the 32-room executive mansion, called it a "drafty old barn that would be just like climbing cardiac hill four or five times a day. You could take a well man and put him in there, and he would be a sick man in a year and a half...
Laid in 1910, The Waltz of the Toreadors tells of a retired French general chained, for all his infidelities, to the sickbed of a not-really-sick jealous shrew of a wife. He is equally chained to his high-romantic memories of a young girl he waltzed with at a ball 17 years before and who now suddenly appears on the scene. Anouilh's General St. Pe, a Don Quixote when he is not a Don Juan, needs-as he grows older-stronger and stronger rose-colored glasses, and is all the more romantic...