Word: sicking
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...long 'free enterprise' seemed to mean only that the British employer was free from responsibility for his employees' welfare. Now the state comes to these undernourished men & women, provides their children with orange juice, cod liver oil and milk, sends the doctor when they are sick. These people won't listen to any man who tells them that the welfare state is a bad thing which robs them of their initiative by all this coddling. They will look at their healthier children and will call that man a liar...
Russell Long was sorry, he said, that his first formal words had to be spoken under such circumstances, i.e., talking to death a Senate rule against filibustering. His desk was piled high, he said, turning on the old Huey quaver, with letters from the poor, the sick, the disabled, pleading for his help. But this other matter had to be taken care of first. He had to protect those same people from a change in the Senate rules "which some future oppressive group could use to grind them to dust...
Westbrook Pegler was on the receiving end of a blast. Representative Arthur G. Klein (Dem., N.Y.) cried that such "scatological skill . . . could spring only from a sick mind." Klein urged the formation of the Westbrook Pegler Annual Award of Journalistic Infamy, with the nomination committee to include the poundmaster and chief plumbing inspector of the District of Columbia, and the prize plaque to be "a rectangular shield transversed by a double cross, surmounted by a turkey buzzard . . . with jackal couchant in the left upper quarter and the symbolic figures of Truth and Decency outraged supine in the lower right quarter...
Patients, conclude Lipkin & Joseph, should be treated as human beings, not as cases. "The good surgeon is also a good physician. The good physician ministers not only to tissue pathology but to the needs of sick people...
Tobey (N.H.) The Senator from Arkansas (Fulbright) has asserted that Senators are not present on. I will tell the Senator while the debate is going on. I will tell the Senator why they are not present. It is because some of them are sick unto death of this piddling stuff which is going on day after day here, this childish stuff, this kid stuff. Senators . . . want a chance to vote and get down to a decision. But here there is continual drool, drool, drool. I am heartily sick...