Word: ill
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Collapsing Dome. Southern California's ill winds have their genesis over the Great Basin, a vast plateau that includes the Mojave Desert and is bounded by the Rocky Mountains on the east and the Sierra Nevada to the west. For reasons still not fully understood by meteorologists, dry winds from the north and northwest are occasionally trapped over the basin and form into a stationary dome of high-pressure air. Two or three days later, when the enormous dome collapses, its great mass of air begins moving toward nearby low-pressure areas. Blocked by the towering walls...
...major policy speech of the Assembly session. "I can expect a certain amount of shock and dissatisfaction among certain people," Justice Beyers noted after his decision, "but I am sure they will realize it could not be otherwise, and that it is not humane or Christian to condemn mentally ill people. I can as little try a man who has not at least the makings of a rational mind as I could...
...article on the new medical technology [Oct. 7] left me ill at ease. The description of the various technological innovations reflected the undying faith of modern man in the science he has created and its presumed efficacy for all fields of human endeavor. Yet, as any man of science would attest, there is a vast difference between faith and knowledge. I suggest that some caution be exercised in the evaluation of the potentialities of the "new technologies of medicine...
...bank designed by Eero Saarinen, a school by San Francisco's John Carl Warnecke and a town library being designed by New York's I. M. Pei. And Saarinen's most spectacular building, the John Deere headquarters, stands on a wide sweep of lawns in Moline, Ill...
...very first paragraph gets under way ungrammatically with the statement that "there is a right way to use words and construct sentences, and many wrong ways." Later on, after having stated that most verbs ending in -ize are "nearly all unnecessary and ill-formed," the text pops up with trivializing, signalize, actualize. It qualifies the absolute: fairly certain, virtual unanimity, quasi-universal. It insists that he betted on a horse is proper, speaks of cookery books, permits in case of fire but not in case of emergency. According to Follett-or the committee-margarine takes a hard g, and clothes...