Word: ill
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Donora's doctors were soon besieged by coughing, wheezing patients complaining of shortness of breath, running noses, smarting eyes, sore throats and nausea. During the next four days, before a heavy rain washed away the menacing shroud, 5,910 of the town's 14,000 residents became ill. Twenty persons-and an assortment of dogs, cats and canaries-died...
About as bad was the loss in orders. Many exhibitors expected either to write large annual orders at this show or to use the exposition as an entree for future calls. "If a customer sees a model at a show," said Leonard Sandberg, sales vice president for the Libertyville, Ill., Metalex Corp. (sales: $1,000,000), "a picture will mean something to him when the salesman comes around. But how can you expect a salesman to carry a 2-ft. by 6-ft. metal room divider? Frankly, we don't know what exactly to do." The housewares men scrambled...
...colleges and university to make room for the rising number of California applicants. But this would restrict the university's ability to perform an important function--attracting talented and educated manpower into the state. Freezing faculty salaries or spending all of the regents' special contingency fund would be equally ill-advised...
...threatened to dump Government stockpiles on the open market. Last week, following a wave of price hikes on other basic metals, major aluminum producers decided to try again. This time the Administration reacted through Gardner Ackley, the President's chief economic adviser, who criticized what he called an "ill-timed sequence of price increases...
...fiercest supporters of anti-British, white-supremacist doctrines, who in 1952, as Minister of Defense, purged most of the military's World War II leaders because they had fought in "Britain's war," and in 1960, as Minister of Justice, was largely responsible for the ill-famed Sharpeville massacre of 72 Africans protesting the apartheid passbook laws; of a heart attack; in Bredasdorp, South Africa...