Word: sicklying
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...minutes and ten seconds after the deep, resonant voice on the sound track began the story of Gethsemane came the cue: "He turned to his disciples and they were sleeping"; at this point the head of the papier-mache figure of Christ slowly turned. "Where were the multitudes and sick he had healed?" intoned the narrator, and Christ's head began to rise. "And an angel appeared," said the voice. Suddenly a spotlight flashed on to catch a daub of silicone paint on one of the figure's lower eyelids, to give the illusion of a glistening tear...
...success stories in U.S. insurance history. But like many an old-line company, Mutual sowed some financial wild oats on the way up. It was frequently accused of giving policyholders a false sense of security with its promises, then yanking the bed sheet from under them when they got sick, citing the fine print of the contract. The company has also been involved in policyholder suits. One rose out of a decision by the company's officers in 1926 to set up a parallel life insurance company, using Mutual's facilities and staff. Not only did the parallel...
...sick of singing the same songs over and over and that's why I want to quit. Two more years ought to do it as far as singing goes. As for writing and recording, that's another thing--I can do that in my spare time. I'd like to go back to teaching, though. I invested a lot of time in my Ph.D. and I want to finish my thesis. The whole point of this singing is to make up the economic difference between a job in industry and a teaching salary...
...principal object of his salvage operation is the heroine. But he is so worried about the bad in her that he fails to appreciate the good, and she hates him for it. Sick of his tyranny, desperate for affection, she goes off on pathetic tangents of rebelliousness-threatens to undress in public, pawns her schoolbooks to pay for a permanent wave, takes clandestine bus trips to Memphis. "I gotta get chances in this life," she rages, and before long she gets one with a roustabout (Stuart Whitman) in a traveling carnival. He is not a bad young fellow...
...layman who know?s nothing about art but suspects that abstract painters are off their rockers won support last week from a Paris physician who has treated about 70 abstractionists in the last ten years. Not only are they sick, said Dr. Elie Bontzolakis in the weekly Arts, but "the more abstract, the sicker they...