Word: ill
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...transitory thing, and that they all would be returning home soon. Many exiles set out from the Florida coasts to carry out "raids" on Cuba. The insidious conspiracy of the Bay of Pigs, and the involvement of the U.S. government in that venture, plus President Kennedy's ill-considered promise to the exiles that "the flag of freedom will someday fly in the streets of Havana again," did nothing to dispel the belief of Cubans in the U.S. that this government was prepared to aid them overthrow the island's revolution...
...problems encountered in business administration and urban planning have many similarities, Kilbridge said. "In each field the problems are mostly ill-structured, containing objective and subjective elements, distortions and discontinuities. Both depend on the collection and organization of large amounts of empirical data, rather than on the application of general theories, for the solutions of their problems...
...Colonel George Papadopoulos, was so preoccupied with Cyprus that it tried at first to ignore the criticism from Karamanlis. But when the colonels became aware of the furor that his words had caused in Greece, they sent a statement to the Greek press that characterized his actions as ill-timed, irresponsible, and "nationally unacceptable," and compared them with those of the exiled boss of the Greek Communist Party. Until now, that part of the Greek press still operating has obediently followed the junta's orders, but the attack on Karamanlis was simply too much. Two Athens publishers, Nassos Botsis...
...Ill lay: Comedian Garry Moore, 52, recuperating in Bermuda's King Edward VII Memorial Hospital after a "very mild heart attack" Evangelist Billy Graham, 49, recovering at West Virginia's Greenbrier hotel from a moderate case of virus pneumonia; New Jersey's Democratic Governor Richard J. Hughes, 58, resting at Philadelphia's University of Pennsylvania Medical Center after surgical removal of a cataract in his left eye; Comedian Bert Lahr, 72, rallying at Manhattan's Columbia-Presbyterian Medical Center from severe pneumonia that put him in a coma; Communications Theorist Marshall McLuhan, 56, also convalescing...
...expression picked up from a Negro farm worker. KQED'S producers claim to give the title no special meaning, although it stems from Rabelais ("What is got over the Devil's back is spent under the belly") and suggests that ill-gotten riches are always squandered...