Word: sicklies
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Flowers for the Sick. Paschen fought back. He went on radio and TV to say that the fund had been used solely for welfare purposes, e.g., flowers for the sick. Besides, he argued, his predecessors had established similar funds and nobody had objected. In any case, he abolished the fund and ordered its $14,000 balance returned to the banks...
Judd & Detweiler switched to another antiscum compound. The boys started hoisting them again. Said happy Printer Puglisi last week: "Nobody's sick around here any more...
Moderate Findings. Prison officials flatly denied any willful mistreatment or brutality. Said huge, knife-scarred Deputy Warden Doyle Smith, object of many of the charges: "I've never whipped a prisoner, but you have to be boss." He was backed to the hilt by wispy, sick-looking Hubert Smith (no relation), chief warden at Rock Quarry since 1951. Declared the warden: "This leg-breaking was planned by these men to get public sympathy to bring pressure on the state to abolish this camp...
This time, sick as he was, Willie outran his luck. On the same fast track where Jesse Owens raced off with the 1936 Olympic Games (in the unhappy presence of Adolf Hitler), Private Williams slammed off the starting blocks and sprinted to the tape in 10.1 sec., an impressive one-tenth of a second faster than Owens' own 100-meter world record. Others had equaled Owens' mark; none had ever broken it. Even Willie could hardly believe the stop watches...
...fast and fashionable company, the old dog learned a pathetic array of new tricks. He kept on painting industriously until his death at 77, but his ice-clear eye gradually veiled, his granite-firm hand practiced soft flamboyance, his powers slipped away like spirits bored with too much worldliness, sick of success...