Word: sicklying
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...pretty, bright, seemingly healthy child, Susan had never been sick. Yet for the Singer family of Bellingham, Wash., this tragedy a fortnight ago was not entirely unexpected. Susan was the third Singer child in five years to die, without warning, in the same way. In 1953 there was Barbara, a normal, vivacious girl of nearly ten. She was on her way to school when a neighbor saw her rise on her toes, stretch her arms and drop to the sidewalk, dead. In 1956 there was Billy, a strong, spirited boy of two. He was heard to sigh...
...grew worse. In New York she walked out on a TV commitment to play Nora in Ibsen's A Doll's House, the part of a woman squashed by the strictures of society and an overbearing husband. The anxiety had reached the point of making her really sick, soon led to a critical emotional breakdown...
...Operation. A sturdy, calm, active man, Fowles began to feel sick in November 1955. Symptoms: chest pains, short breath, chills and fever. His doctors diagnosed gallstones. Surgeons removed the stones at an Ogden hospital-but also found a spreading cancer in the liver. A postoperative tissue study confirmed the fact; Fowles had metastases throughout his liver and bile ducts from a primary malignancy of the pancreas. Patient Fowles was given no more than 90 days to live. His wife and four children were informed; he was told only that his gallstones had been successfully removed...
...observation. A possible item on the agenda: putting a doll mother and a knife in his hands to see his reaction. Other tests will inevitably get at the truth of his "statements," which alone prove that whether he is a guilty boy or not, Dean Nimer is a very sick...
Historic Reply. Marlborough, returning tired and sick from campaigning, tried to heal the breach-only to find that he, too, had had his day. Just as the Queen would have no more of Sarah, so would the war-weary nation have no more of John. "Mr. & Mrs. Freeman" were no more: they had been reduced to the status of a common duke and duchess...