Word: skidded
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...days on the equivalent of $10 a week. Said he: "There is nothing that I want to do, and nothing particularly that I am glad to have done." He added bitterly: "Man is not an animal in which intelligence can take much pride." A year later, flying into a skid on his motorcycle, he dashed his brains out against a tree...
...Skid Row floaters are a primary source of tuberculosis infection, reported the A.M.A. Journal. An eleven-month survey of transients at the Minneapolis Salvation Army Men's Social Service Center revealed a TB rate 55 times greater than the city average. Fatigue, crowded sleeping quarters (in fleabag hotels and charitable institutions), and uncleanliness help make the hoboes TB-prone. Moreover by taking temporary jobs as cooks' helpers and dishwashers, they spread the disease...
...calls life's "acts of heroism." His big, life-size painting of a baby taking its first step beams with self-conscious bravery; his old lady in a wicker chair, a sort of off-key Whistler's mother, is the essence of enduring patience. Even his cadaverous Skid Row figures, asleep amid prowling mongrels and a litter of old newspapers on a sidewalk, exhibit a kind of desperate valor. Says Smith: "They may be resigned, even despairing, but they're still trying to live...
...Maurice, 12, suffered from a stammer and tic. After drinking nothing but wine and an occasional aperitif since infancy, he was retarded, with hands that shook like the paws of a Skid...
...cast which peoples Steinbeck's skid row are the following weirdies...