Word: sicklies
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Here the insidious nature of the disease is made apparent. When a patient has been in bed a week, he feels much better; his symptoms are less apparent, he remembers the date he had for the Yale game, and he is bored stiff. However, he is still sick. If he stays bed another week he can probably return to his studies while curtailing himself to limited activity for a short period. If he leaves prematurely he will quite possibly return to Stillman for a lengthy stay...
Only yesterday Turkey had seemed a solid rock in the free world's sea of uncertainties. Now it is a bothered bastion. Its economy is sick and its government is flirting with bankruptcy. Its brief but intense experience with democracy is afflicted with a return of the familiar weapons of autocracy...
...When Mitropoulos arrived four hours late at Athens' airport, after a bumpy flight from Naples, hundreds of admirers greeted him with cries of "Yassou, yassou-Hello, hello." and thrust bunches of tuberoses and laurel into his arms. But the maestro was in no mood for adulation. "I was sick as a dog," he blurted into a microphone, "and I still feel ill. I'm very happy to be back. Now please let me pass...
...first, village officials begged parents to send their children back to school pending "decisions from higher authorities.'' Then, when the villagers gathered for a mass protest meeting, the officials decided to compromise. While awaiting a new "arrangement," they had decided to put M. Mériel on sick leave and turn his classes over to his wife. At week's end, things were quiet again in Ifs-especially in the vicinity of Headmaster Mériel himself. "If they're not pleased," said he drowsily, "let them promote me to a secondary school. All the same...
...carried without cost by Japan Air Lines, the Japanese National Railways and the Mitsui Steamship Co. One problem still remains. Some marimo lovers fear that newly freed marimos will contaminate Lake Akan with ills picked up in captivity. They urge that all returning captives get medical examinations. If sick, they should be restored to health before being liberated...