Word: ill
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...That sister had an operation and it became necessary to give her a blood transfusion. A brother gave his blood. As she was lying very ill and he nearby, she said: 'Oh, I'll do anything...
These spirited messages unfortunately did little to stimulate the government's militia, largely composed of ill-trained, ill-disciplined shoemakers, cabdrivers and waiters who were only prevented from scattering in despair by their officers standing behind them with cocked firearms. At San Martín-de-Val de Inglesias, 7,000 Reds vainly attempted to repulse 1,000 Whites, made it easy for White Generalissimo Francisco Franco's armies to resume their march on Madrid...
...makes a point of discovering and supplying these. One of the most sensational Jacobs horses this summer has been Amagansett, a 6-year-old jumper which Mr. Jacobs got last spring for the nominal price of $1,000 because his owner, Thomas Hitchcock Sr., considered him surly and ill-tempered. Amagansett, who stopped sulking as soon as Trainer Jacobs bought him, has since won eleven races, $11,000 in purses...
...tell the people exactly what he intends to do. During the last year the major complaint against President Roosevelt has been his lack of sincerity and honesty. Not only has he failed to live up to his campaign promises, but his entire lack of truthfulness with respect to his ill-considered measures has aroused an indignant public. He has concealed material facts concerning the administration and has attempted to sell himself to the voter by misrepresentation and honeyed words...
President Dodds has shown that he meant no idle jest in his Opening Address when he deplored the "flask-toters and alcoholic" partisans who are mainly responsible for the exhibitions of ill-breeding which have become all too characteristic of intercollegiate football spectators...