Word: sicklying
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...have a sick, ailing old man," says one of the President's close associates. "The country can continue to put its trust in him on the big decisions." But if allowed to slide, small problems can snowball into major cases, e.g., the present economic recession, and it is in this area that the President's inability to ride constant herd is most felt...
...warrant charging vagrancy. The "patient" was lying in a bloodstained bed with an oxygen tube up his nose. "Come along," said a deputy. Lamphere pulled the tube out of his nose, kicked off the bed cover, snapped: "I can dress myself." While hovering nurses protested that he was too sick to be moved, Lamphere was led off to jail...
...Socialists promptly blasted the government for laying the added burden on the whole population, meaning that most of it would be borne by the well. Deliberately so, said Heathcoat-Amory: the government believed this was fairer than putting a still heavier burden on the sick, who are least able to bear...
...Radcliffe shift to Stillman will mean that more time can be devoted to Annex service; that administration will be less cumbersome; and most important, that sick Radcliffe students will more often be treated by doctors rather than by nurses or methods of selfmedication, Dana L. Farnsworth, Director of the University Health Services, indicated...
...hoped-for Hollywood fadeout to the Bocce story by discovering a great new singer. But the Bocce has had at least one glorious moment: five years ago, with 3,300 tickets sold for a Pacific Opera performance of Pagliacci, Tenor Ernest Lawrence phoned to say he was too sick to sing Canio. Two hours before curtain time, Director Arturo Casiglia reached Bocce Tenor Arthur Peters, zipped him into the costume of Leoncavallo's tragic clown, gave him a pointer or two on acting and propelled him onstage. He did fine, got warm critical notices...