Word: bedridden
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Yardling wing, who had been bedridden with a cold, lost little time in proving his fitness. He took a pass from Captain Dick Mechem to register the first Crimson goal for the only score in the opening period...
...transformed into incorrigible delinquents. Adults do not change so radically, but may develop a typical masklike expression, trembling hands, a stiff, rigid body. Some are drowsy all the time; others cannot sleep. Strangely enough, victims do not necessarily lose athletic skill. Said Dr. Neal: "I have seen patients bedridden by day who were able to walk and even dance during the night. . . . One patient could pitch a ball with speed and accuracy, whereas the spasticity [jerkiness] and tremor of his right arm interfered with his carrying out the more simple acts of everyday life...
...bedridden, half-paralyzed artist named Edward Bruce lay in a bare, white-walled room in Washington's Emergency Hospital. There he got to thinking how much better his room would look if its walls were hung with a few water colors. He was in no condition to paint any himself. So he hung some paintings by contemporary artists and loved them. That gave Artist Bruce the idea of putting original water colors on the walls of U.S. hospitals. By last week it had produced an upsurge in the watercolor business...
...remaining entries, some were better art than poster art. Most commented on of all were four queer-looking items which were neither, but which might well have brought awesome whispers from fanciers of U. S. primitives. These were by a bedridden ex-gob named Robert S. Owen, who painted them while lying on his back in his Colorado Springs home. Painter Owen's posters, reminiscent of the childlike, words-of-one-syllable cartoons of Hearstman Nelson Harding, belched and dripped with arson and mayhem, made Europe's troubles look like a chamber of horrors. In one a bolshevik...
...been bedridden for years, have walked and climbed stairs ever since they last saw Dr. Raab. Another, "who had not been able to do the easiest kind of work before treatment," applied for admission to a foreign country as a field laborer...