Word: sicklies
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Dear Miss Randall: Sorry you're sick and Lying in bed. Hope you come back Before you're dead...
...Roman Catholic Queen of England), and the bloodless Revolution of 1688 (which established Britain in a truce of class, power and tradition). Churchill presents, with the terse clarity of one of his own state papers, an England emerging from the age of the first Elizabeth, when most Englishmen were sick of blood spilled over theological differences. They were to find that theology disguised as politics could be even bloodier. Churchill argues that ancient English liberties reposed in the monarch, the church and Parliament-but that Parliament, when it overthrew the others, could be a worse tyrant than either...
...Sick Call & Slowdowns. Not all the humming new factories do so well. East Germany's Communist Party Chief Walter Uhlbricht complains that 70% of East Germany's machine and machine-tool output is not up to world standards, and productivity is low. East Germany's own statistics admit that workers spend 30% of their 48-hour week away from the job, attending party functions or "spontaneous" rallies where Communist functionaries often petition for extra shifts at no extra pay. Furthermore, almost 7% of East Germany's man-hours trickle away in sick call...
...comment late yesterday afternoon Toohey said, "I've got two or three men who are sick. If they come to work on Saturday, we might go down to Princeton...
...written "what he calls a vision, Kubla Khan," it was to Lamb that he read this great poem aloud-"so enchantingly that it brings heaven into my parlor while he sings or says it." William Hazlitt, angriest of English essayists ("He avows that not only does he not pity sick people, but he hates them"), was another devoted friend. Percy Bysshe Shelley makes a brief appearance ("His voice was the most obnoxious squeak I ever was tormented with"), and there is one glorious occasion when Lamb "dined in Parnassus, with Wordsworth, Coleridge, [Samuel] Rogers and Tom Moore-half the Poetry...