Word: sickness
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Several days after the children were twinned Dr. Moran noticed that Clara was growing stronger, John weaker. Her red blood cells were increasing, his decreasing. As the tube stretched to 20 inches John grew sick and dizzy, finally developed acute anemia and lapsed into a coma. Giving up the graft experiment, Dr. Moran quickly cut the Siamese twins apart, found that Clara, like a vampire, had drained out John's blood through a net of capillaries which had formed on John's end of the tube. No capillaries had formed on her end of the tube...
...Istanbul's Dolmabaghché Palace, from whose mullioned windows one can look out over the Bosporus to Asia Minor, there lay sick abed a medium-sized, lean, 59-year-old man with receding colorless hair and a cultivated, fixed stare. The celebration was held because 15 years ago this soldier-statesman - born simple Mustafa, then called Mustafa Kemal (Perfection), later renamed by Turkey's legislators Kamâl Atatürk (''Perfection, Father of All Turks") - had pronounced: "I decide that Turkey become a Republic with a President...
...four or five classes a week for all children and adults, except surgical patients, in the psychiatric division. For Bellevue psychiatrists this meant precisely what a new and rangier telescope would mean to an observatory. Day by day they could study in sequence the attempts at expression by mentally sick people. Though the art of individual schizophrenics, among them Dancer Vaslav Nijinsky, has been analyzed in the past as a matter of psychiatric routine, Director Karl Bowman of the Psychiatric Division thinks Bellevue was the first to practice such extensive therapeutic use of painting, such systematic study of the results...
Rachmaninoff lived to regret the popularity of his Prelude. He himself gave it more than 1,000 performances in the U. S. alone, got so sick of it that the mere sound of its three opening crashes gave him the creeps. Once, when asked in an interview how it should be played, he wrung his hands and replied hoarsely: "I do not care! They can play it any way they choose just so long as they do not play it where I can hear...
...pension wave had lesser crests, and in California spring tide seemed at hand. California the wonderland, California the rugged and golden, lies at that edge of the continent where the migrations that made the nation ended. There the last vanguard of pioneers halted and the rearguard of sick, halt, lame, blind, crooked and crazy have caught up. It is a home of saints and scoundrels, heroines and houris. There since Depression I has grown up a strange society in which men born in the great open spaces and hardshells with their feet two generations planted were artificially mixed with sunkist...