Word: sicklying
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...first day, when "I was standing up there with my tin tray, having my bit of food plonked down in front of me like all the others." Barracks life was even more indigestible: "The thought of me in that little bed, with 15 other blokes around ... I felt real sick. It was grim, man-just grim." Within 48 hours Terry's delicate psyche collapsed, and the brass carted him off gently to a hospital ward...
...sick Government-bond market last week had its worst sinking spell. As prices of old issues hit new lows, their yields rose as high as 4.28%. exceeding the 4¼% ceiling on coupon rates the Government can set on new long-term bonds. Not since the hectic, tight-money days of early 1932 have yields risen so high. The sinking spell came at a particularly bad time for Treasury Secretary Robert B. Anderson; he needed $5.3 billion to carry the Government through June...
...both soothing and revolutionary. John Wood, trusted employee of a land-company, is regarded as a paragon of virtue in his town of some 2,000 people. He is handsome beyond compare, a superintendent of the Sunday school, and gives the devotion of a medieval knight to his chronically sick wife. His son Philip is a senior in high school and is, if anything, a cut above the old block-handsome, kind, courteous, his mother's protector, his school's hero and his minister's pride. Even old Colonel Merriam, his father's boss, sees...
...participation in social clubs," "joie de vivre" and like that stuff. We should give up our search for "aggressive outlets," our traces of "residual bitterness" and "sibling rivalry" for a more "healthy attitude." However, the answer to that challenge is simple: So, who wants to be "healthy" in a sick society...
...does not overcultivate the acres. When Chark, the German, tells them of his plan to search for a gold-carrying plane that has crashed, all agree to stick together. Ridiculously ill-equipped, they begin a journey whose terrors bring out the best and worst in them all. Starving, sick, half-crazed, they stumble along after the German, take turns carrying the child and the box of crucifixes that the priest intends for native Indians. The ceaseless procession of horrors is almost too much-but not quite. Author Lacour tips his pen with a searching probe of each character...