Word: ille
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Colleges Are Ill Prepared for Their Invasion...
Boycotts & Bullets. Since weeklies are closer than dailies to readers and advertisers and more vulnerable to the pressure of advertisers, they are often hit by economic boycotts. But few editors cave in under such threats-or worse. In Granite City, Ill., after Editor Cornelius E. Townsend had waged an editorial campaign against organized gambling in the community, a hoodlum recently emptied his revolver into Townsend's Press-Record office. Echoing many a fighting editor before him, Townsend said: "Maybe they'll scare hell out of me someday and I'll quit. But I don't think...
...proved. Since no negligence has been proved, the Swedish American line will pay $4,000,000, the value of the Stockholm after the collision, into a joint liability fund. The Andrea Doria being a total loss, its owners will pay only $400,000 into the fund, the amount the ill- fated vessel earned on its last trip. If the $4,400,000 total is not enough to satisfy the passenger-cargo claims, the Andrea Doria will hike its contribution another $1,800,000. The $4,400,000-to-$6,200,000 funds looked ridiculously small beside the $85 million...
Mary's small victory came after a year and a half of special training at Boston's private Speech School for Crippled Children. Housed in a shabby, ill-lit building on Newbury Street, the school has for 38 years been giving children with grave speech defects their chance to lead a more normal life. Some of its pupils are stammerers or have cleft palates. Others are epileptics, spastics, mongoloids or deaf-mutes. In spite of dealing with a wide range of handicaps, the school has chalked up quite a record: in the last five years it has enabled...
...tells the princesses that their country's religion, which revolves around a shapeless stone earth-mother deity named Ungit, is a pack of lies. But Ungit's priests bully the king into offering up Psyche as a human sacrifice to redeem the kingdom from an ill fate. The heartbroken Orual makes a pilgrimage to recover her sister's bones from the mountain site of the sacrifice, and to her amazement finds Psyche luminously alive. Through Psyche's newly gained mystical vision, Orual is given a glimpse of paradise, but rejects it as an insane mirage...