Word: sicklying
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Future: stoutly maintaining that "it is false that France is sick, false that she is old," Gaillard argues that if his countrymen can be held to austerity for 18 months "we will finally find ourselves in the open...
Emotion v. Metabolism. Some psychiatrists lay heavy stress on heredity, but Bleuler insisted that nobody knows whether the disease is hereditary through specific genes or whether it is passed on from generation to generation because children are emotionally damaged by schizophrenic parents who subject their offspring to a sick environment. As for opinions about treatment, said Bleuler, some psychiatrists see schizophrenia as primarily emotional in origin and give top marks to psychotherapy; others seek the cause of the disease in the chemical or metabolic abnormalities that are known to mark schizophrenia, hence downgrade psychotherapy to a mere adjunct of physical...
...time, says Italian Designer Gio Ponti, for the modern male to rescue the double bed from the dainty clutch of the modern female. The ordinary double bed with its feminine frills not only sins against good taste, he argues, but is no place where a man can be sick with comfort or die with majesty. Agush with strong and sensible views on everything from bathroom faucets to skyscraper spires, Milan's Ponti exuberantly looks forward to the day when walls twist like trees and look like vegetables. See ART, The Pleasures of Ponti...
...taste. One example of common bad taste is making a double bed too feminine. A bed isn't only a place for voluptuousness. It is a place where you want to sleep soundly, heavily, in contrast with delicacy. It is the place where at times you will be sick, when you want comfort, not refinement. It is the place where you will want to die. when you want majesty, not daintiness. What woman worthy of the name wants to see her man sleep in lace...
...second round the balding apple-knocker from the Yakima Valley let loose a looping right, and it caught the champion, high on the cheek. For four satisfying seconds, the thin crowd in Seattle's Sick's Stadium sensed that it might be getting its money's worth. There was World Heavyweight Champion Floyd Patterson on the canvas. Perhaps this amateur challenger named T. Peter Rademacher had a professional punch after all. It was all so surprising that Referee Tommy Loughran was as flustered as Floyd. He forgot to count...