Word: sicklies
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Early in November President Café Filho, who had tried to stay neutral in the behind-the-scenes struggle, suffered a mild heart attack and went on sick leave. In keeping with the constitution, Chamber of Deputies Speaker Carlos Luz, suspected of golpista sympathies, took over as Acting President. On Nov. 10 Luz forced General Lott to resign. Lett's successor, a golpista army general, was waiting in the next room...
...Rivera made a grateful bid (untaken) to his hosts: "I would consider it the climax of my career if the Soviet government asked me to paint something for them here!" The U.S.S.R. struck Diego Rivera as little short of paradise. Said he: "I am very happy to have been sick here...
...Mozart joined the Freemasons in an attempt to find comfort. His Magic Flute, based on a Masonic theme, was a success, but he was by then too sick (a "general breakdown") to enjoy it very much. He was writing his last, heartrending begging-letters and struggling to finish the Requiem that was to be "my death-song." "I have nothing more to fear," he wrote to his old friend, da Ponte. "I have come to an end before having had the enjoyment of my talent. Life was indeed so beautiful, my career begun under such fortunate auspices; but one cannot...
...fact that India receives U.S. aid," said Singh, "creates certain expectancies in the U.S. which India is rightly not willing to meet. That in turn creates disappointment and bitterness in the U.S., thus worsening Indo-American relations . . . The fact is, U.S. taxpayers are sick and tired of shelling out their money to foreign countries and particularly to countries which are not in their corner. And India is not in their corner...
SOCIAL FUNCTION (a score of 1,000 points out of a possible 1,000): "With some 5,000,000 workers [the church] annually educates about 20 million children and cares for an even greater number of the sick and needy of all creeds...