Word: sicklies
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...trial at all, but an attempt on the part of the "committee" to "reconcile its views with Pastor Crist's." This is false. It was a trial! The blase assumption that here was a bunch of nice guys trying desperately to win over a prodigal son makes me sick...
...camps of Korea. "Many servicemen exhibited pride in themselves and their units," the committee reported, discussing the one encouraging portent of the P.W. camps. "This was particularly pronounced where they had belonged to the same unit for years. They stood by one another . . . If a soldier were sick, his fellow soldiers took care of him. They washed his clothes, bathed him, and pulled him through. These soldiers did not let each other down. Nor could the Korean Reds win much cooperation from them...
...informed upon his fellow prisoners, nor accepted rewards from the Communists. Gallagher admitted that he had signed a Communist peace petition urging U.S. troops to stop the "useless war," that he sometimes took the Communist side in camp discussion groups, that he had strung up a sick fellow prisoner from a peg; his purpose, said Gallagher, was to give the sick patient exercise. "I did not have too many friends," he said. "The men just didn't like me. When I would walk up to another squad, the men would say, 'Shut up, here comes Gallagher...
Despite a parade of ten rebuttal witnesses from the prosecution (in all, 28 former P.W.s testified against him), Sergeant Gallagher remained calm. At week's end, the court-martial gave its verdict: guilty of the unpremeditated murder of both the sick men he put out into the snow, of the maltreatment-but not the murder-of the third man he had strung from the peg, guilty of collaborating with the enemy. The sentence was the maximum: confinement at hard labor "for the term of your natural life...
...Cabinet voted to increase its buying up of wine and distribute it in weekly rations of about a quart apiece to the country's "economically feeble," i.e., paupers, sick people over 60, everyone over 65. The Cabinet also recommended that the Defense Ministry increase by 50% the army's ration, now a pint of rough red pinard a day. In doing so, the government neatly canceled out former Premier Mendés-France's campaign to cut down on winebibbing among the soldiery. By Mendés-France's order, the serving of milk is obligatory...