Word: ill
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Dead. Sandy got her comeuppance during the ill-fated Actors Studio London run in 1965. Playing Irina in Chekhov's Three Sisters after too little rehearsal, she was booed and got the worst roasting of her career. The London Times described Sandy and Kim Stanley, who played another of the sisters, as "ludicrous and painful." Zeroing in on Sandy's speech ("I-er-I-ah"), Critic Bernard Levin of the Daily Mail reported that "I could barely restrain myself from screaming aloud with the pain of my throbbing nerves." Worse, Sandy was bypassed for the screen versions...
...that Reuther has debased their "dignity" by paying more attention to the needs of ordinary production workers. Reuther has promised to "go to the mat" for at least one of their demands-that auto companies end the practice of contracting work to outside shops. But he also denounced as "ill-timed and illadvised" a demonstration of 5,000 workers outside Ford headquarters last week...
...tireless traveler and telephoner who at his peak managed 75,000 air miles a year and $300,000 worth of telephone bills, he also kept in almost daily contact with Edgar in California, made trips to the mainland to keep an eye on his holdings. He returned ill from his last trip in June, was taken off the airplane in an ambulance, died of what was described as circulatory ailments. He fell short by 15 years of a final ambition to live...
...private' physician-patient relationships. The purpose behind the statute is to inspire confidence in patients to make full disclosure of symptoms and conditions to physicians. Such confidence is deemed necessary to the efficacy of treatment. This is especially so in the case of state hospitals for the mentally ill, where complete confidence in the attending physicians is a sine qua non to the cure...
...cutting prices last February, the company got some extra sales push out of its slow-moving Rambler American economy line. It decided to scrap its ill-conceived Marlin fastback effective with the 1968 model-year, meanwhile cut back production on all '67 models to make sure that it would not be stuck with unsold cars. "Since January," says Luneburg, "we've operated at about halftime. I've never seen it before-and I never want to again...