Word: sicklies
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...secretary of the Federation of South African Women was dragged away from the bedside of her sick child. A British-born Methodist minister was arrested in his rectory at 4 a.m. Professor Zachariah Matthews, onetime Henry W. Luce Professor of World Christianity at Manhattan's Union Theological Seminary, was another of those rounded up, packed into police vans and jailed in Johannesburg in the dark of the night...
...Sick and tired of widely parroted statistics that one out of 16 persons (or, some say, one out of ten) will spend part of his life in a mental hospital, famed Psychiatrist William C. Menninger came out with a sweeping statistic of his own last week. He told the National Association for Mental Health: "Even the most startling of these figures . . . refer only to extreme cases of mental disorder. [They] overlook the common, everyday emotional disturbances which can be as upsetting and incapacitating as many of the physical illnesses. When we take these into account, the toll of mental...
...first singles for the "B" team, Lonnie Blackmer lost a very close 3-2 decision in extra points in the fifth game. Blackmer had been sick for the past several days and was not playing up to his usually strong game...
...developed any of the few specific symptoms by which he could pinpoint just what particular disease each suffered from. To the bright-eyed Selye, this was only half the story at best: in his view, all the patients already suffered from a state of "just being sick," which medicine was ignoring. He wanted to know how this came about, and what all its victims had in common...
Specific "diseases of adaptation," according to Selye, include rheumatoid and gouty arthritis, several kidney disorders and some types of high blood pressure. Less well-defined but perhaps more clearly related to stress are emotional disturbances. There is also a two-way vicious cycle: besides "psychosomatic" illnesses in which a sick psyche causes physical changes in the organs, Selye emphasizes "somatopsychic" illnesses, arguing that nobody can be physically ill without as a result also suffering emotional upset...