Word: ill
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...these malcontents, listen to the immortal words of Hilaire Belloc: "They died to save their country and they only saved the world." JAMES M. BOUSHAY Lockport, Ill...
...large number of liberals that surround William Buckley is not surprising. It merely demonstrates that an articulate, logical representation of conservative positions will often confound liberals. They befriend Buckley in the way that the vanquished befriend the conqueror. GREGORY G. SCHMIDT Urbana, Ill...
...Ninh body count of North Vietnamese dead had grown to 926; U.S. intelligence estimated that perhaps half that many again had been dragged away for burial by their comrades, and that another 2,000 to 3,000 had been wounded. This high casualty rate (roughly 50%) for the two ill-fated Red regiments, who were ordered to take the town at all costs, made Loc Ninh one of the war's most significant Allied victories...
Hurt Pride. The trouble is that the force is hurting French pride in many other ways. It has already cost $8 billion that France can ill afford, and it is still costing more than $2 billion a year. Its costs amount to about 10% of the national budget in a country whose housing is among the worst in Western Europe, whose ancient schools are a national scandal and whose roads are woefully inadequate. Most important, the country faces stiff economic competition abroad, especially from West Germany and the U.S., and could better channel its money into making more computers...
Such troubles lie beyond the therapeutic reach of a tax increase, which is not, as Chairman Gardner Ackley of the White House Council of Economic Advisers quipped last week, "the complete remedy for every ill including the common cold." But Ackley, from rostrums in Los Angeles and Manhattan, spelled out the Administration's case in somber detail. Without higher taxes, he warned, the nation faces "potentially serious trouble" with "price increases and soaring interest rates." On top of that, Ackley forecast "a deteriorating trade balance and new weakness in housing alongside a possibly unhealthy boom in investment, inventories...