Word: ille
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...When I first ran for mayor," said Paul Egan of Aurora. Ill. last week, "everybody thought I was a joke. They tried to prove I'm crazy. Once they got working on my wife and they almost had her persuaded to commit me to an institution." Opening the desk drawer in his office in the ramshackle city hall 35 miles west of Chicago, hen-shaped Mayor Egan spat into it, slammed it shut. At 58, blue-eyed, poly-chinned Paul Egan is no joke. The magazine Chicago called him "the worst mayor in the world"-but the electorate...
Into umbrous, ill-ventilated underground caverns, seemingly as necessary to life as the air-raid shelters where some of the visitors were born, thousands of bemused young Londoners squeeze nightly to stomp and holler their approval of Britain's latest musical mania: U.S. rock 'n' roll, commercial hillbilly and folk music, warmed over and juiced up in a mishmash called skiffle...
...glands are removed and the mouth becomes ulcerated, they become susceptible to cancer. These results are consistent with observed cases of human mouth cancer. Such cases are rare among both smokers and betel-nut chewers with good teeth. But they are relatively common in individuals with jagged teeth or ill-fitting dentures that may have worn through the "physiological barrier...
...from generation to generation. There is even doubt, in many cases, whether the children of mentally defective parents are themselves mentally defective because of the unfavorable background of their early life or because of defective genes. In the U.S. 28 states have laws permitting sterilization for the mentally ill or defective confined in institutions. In Scandinavia the situation is notably different. Denmark has the most aggressive program of sterilization for persons (whether in institutions or not) believed likely to produce defective offspring, and in London's Eugenics Review Professor Tage Kemp of Copenhagen spells out how the plan works...
...continued that '"suicide is seldom a simple matter and I consequently deplore as ill-considered the remarks" of Colonel Bunker...