Word: sicklying
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...right on the deck" in good weather at less than 500 ft. Conrad's only crisis came as he neared the coast of Texas, when he decided to drink some tea. "The Arabs put mint in it, and it had become rancid," he explained. "Boy, was I sick!" "Everybody likes to break a record," he said after landing. "I finally decided to do it officially." He flew on to San Francisco, got an enthusiastic welcome from the two youngest of his ten children Francesco, 9 and Ann, 7. Said son Terry, 16: "He's the type of person...
...Rabbit Trap (Canon; United Artists). Once upon a time there was a company man (Ernest Borgnine). He worked as a draftsman for a construction outfit, and the fellows all called him "Steady Eddie" because he was never late, never sick, never idle, never got a raise. One year the boss (David Brian) got bighearted and let him take a two-week vacation with pay. So Eddie piled the wife and kid in his '53 Chevy and headed for a place called Deep Springs, where there were some nice cabins, not too expensive. But after a couple of days...
Across the Board. In Memphis, police arrested James Earl Marshall for practicing medicine without a license after he had advertised that he could heal the "lame, sick and blind, and show you how to get easy money, a good car, a home and many other things you need...
...into the meat grinder. And the audience moves with them into this heart-racking film translation of S.L.A. Marshall's classic report on Pork Chop Hill (TIME, Nov. 19, 1956)-that inopportune Thermopylae where the American fighting man wrote in blood, at a moment when the world was sick of the sight of blood, a great, pathetic page in the history of courage...
...exception), and neither are the stratified middlemen, who peddle heroin in amounts down to ounces (at $500 an ounce for the pure "horse"). A few "pushers" (the smallest of small-fry peddlers) are caught, but for the most part the courts and the jails see only the addicts-the sick...