Word: sicklies
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...shocked at your erroneous statement [Sept. 24] that the magazine Mad had been "short lived." It's not even sick. Mad expects to be around till the end of Time...
Over the Hump. Next day Nixon was not only sick, but woozy from the flood of antibiotics. Dr. Todd began shooting him full of vitamins, but Nixon was still able to deliver only 16 minutes of his Oklahoma City speech. Filling in briefly for him after that was his wife and campaign companion, Pat Nixon, who made up in charm what her talk lacked in high-flown political oratory. Said Pat: "We're very willing to work night and day and to join with you in trying-in our attempt-to elect our great President and in working...
...white men, not jellybacks." When one of Dr. Coggins' friends asked a county commissioner if he had not eaten with Negroes on hunting trips, he replied: "They eat after we're through." Florida's Governor LeRoy Collins angrily denounced the firing. "I am sick about it ... an evil act," but Collins had no power to intervene...
...arrested, it drove my mother insane. We had no way of living. My brother, who had also worked for the U.B. was discharged because of my father, so he committed suicide. Until my father was freed under the amnesty in 1954 we had no word from him. I was sick. I had chronic skin disease when my father was arrested. My mother could not do anything for herself, and I have two young sisters who could not work. So I had to look for a job. But I could not get work anywhere because I was ill. The Communist Party...
...Hope for a Permanent Cure OLD King Cotton has been sick for years, and getting progressively worse. But now, for the first time since the Korean war, there are hopeful signs of recovery. In the 1956-57 marketing year the staggering cotton surplus, currently at an all time record 14.1 million bales, is expected to level off or perhaps even decline a bit. More important, the Government is trying new medicines on cotton, all aimed at effecting a permanent cure in the years to come...