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Word: ailes (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1970-1979
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...certainly seemed so. "They live in that?" he questioned incredulously, as he squatted in front of a hut built from cow dung in northern Kenya. "Are they happy?" he asked, studying a group of Rendille tribesmen resting under a tree. He then wanted to know, "What do they do ail day long?" Told that they tended cattle, he persisted: "Yes. But what do they do while they're tending cattle?" And later he wondered whether "these local people have a pagan religion." To such questions posed by California Governor Jerry Brown, his African hosts could only smile...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Nation: Making the African Scene | 4/23/1979 | See Source »

...undergraduate who had already bailed himself out approached W.C. Burris Young Jr. associate dean of freshmen or bail money for a fellow student who had refused to post ail. Dean Young lent the undergraduate the $100 needed to over bail with the explicit stipulation that the money was a personal loan and did not come from University monies. This accident underscores still another shortcoming in University regulations: namely that absence of any contingency fund that imprisoned students can draw upon should they wish to bail themselves out and lack the necessary cash. The University should also consider the establishment...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Bailing Out Students | 5/18/1977 | See Source »

...Rome" in 1941, the very time when Hitler was violently attacking Catholicism root and branch in his table conversation. Toland's literary pretensions do not help. A section on Hitler's ill health in 1941 is headed-incredibly -by an epigraph from Keats: "O what can ail thee, Knight at arms,/ Alone and palely loitering...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Sheer Bunker | 12/6/1976 | See Source »

...seems ironic that, with even more inflationary and socialistic programs, two "hometown, ail-American boys" like Jimmy and Fritz could make the country's economic problems worse ... but they could...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Forum, Aug. 16, 1976 | 8/16/1976 | See Source »

...poisoning does occur in spite of ail precautions, Hartman recommends emptying the stomach as quickly as possible, either mechanically-with a finger in the throat-or with a nonprescription drug called ipecac. Says he: "That is basically the only antidote to any kind of plant poisoning." The next step: rush the victim to the doctor or hospital...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Medicine: The Deadly Garden | 3/1/1976 | See Source »

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