Word: sicklies
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...said, "but it's the only way to save his life. The doctors convinced me of that." After the operation, surgeons pronounced Johnny's chances of recovery from cancer "reasonably good." Two days later, Johnny's doctor explained to him what had happened: "The eye was sick, and I had to take it out to keep you alive. When I take this bandage off, don't open your eye because you won't be able to see, Johnny. You won't ever be able to see again, but you'll be all right...
...Nelson. When Heller's agents came to inspect the Nelson plant and books, the officers protested that they needed no loan, were loaded with cash. But Albert had his hand-picked executive vice president, Keith Munroe, sign the Heller note when Nelson's president was sick in a hospital...
...Norman L. Hickey, 27, felt a sudden tightening around his chest -"as though someone had been screwing down a metal band around it, and I was shaking like a leaf." He worked on. Next day, too nauseated to eat, Hickey felt the tightness return. He gave up, went on sick call. Doctors, unable to decide what ailed him, even sent him to a fever isolation ward before he ended up in the cardiac clinic of Walter Reed Army Hospital. Because his case was so tricky, the hospital called Presidential Cardiologist Thomas Mattingly for consultation. Colonel Mattingly had the diagnosis...
...Probably they didn't realize the cat belonged to anyone," Mrs. Lilian Brennan said last night, "but it belongs to my little son and daughter and my son has been sick lately and he misses it very much...
After pleading that he was too sick to testify because of his heart condition, Manhattan's frog-voiced Gambler Frank Costello, 65, looked in perfect health when the Government's deportation case against the Italian-born racketeer was thrown out of court (because so much of the evidence was gathered through wire taps). "By the law of averages, I was bound to win this one," said Costello. Then he was led back to prison, where he recently began serving a five-year sentence for cheating the Government on taxes...