Word: ille
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...thith country." The inscription on his grammar-school graduation program read: "Appearance-politician. Besetting sin-politics." At twelve he spoke for the Harding-Coolidge ticket. He thrilled to the drama of his first national convention in 1924, returned to take over the chairmanship, from an adult who had fallen ill, of the finance committee of Alameda's Coolidge-Dawes Republican Club. Billy raised funds, paid bills and shared in the credit for Alameda's thumping Republican majority...
...there were plenty he could have harbored against Bill Knowland, who had challenged him in the Senate and refused to deal with him for the presidency. But Taft was perfectly aware of Bill Knowland's basic quality. Late on the afternoon of June 9, 1953, Bob Taft, fatally ill, entered Styles Bridges' office, dropped heavily into a chair and said quietly: "I'm going to be away and I've asked Bill to carry on for me. Nobody can push him around...
...expiring Council did, of course, make reports too. There was the "Ticket Distribution" report which equivocally recommended that undergraduates receive seats in section 30, while former lettermen and Varsity Club members, current residents of section 30, retain their privileged seats. And if the "Food" report was gently termed "ill-advised" by its author, still, the "Growth" report was a thorough and serious argument against expansion. The dignity of the initial draft remains essentially uncompromised by the fact that the Council ground the report into a cornmeal johnnycake supporting "conditional expansion...
...crucial difficulty with the "ill-advised" Food Report and the muddly ticket report was the fact that Administration officers lead the report writers around a seemingly endless series of gorse bushes, round which the intrepid investigators seemed calmly content to trot. Said the ticket report: "We have been unable to obtain an exact accounting for all tickets in Section 31. A cursory observation would seem to indicate that some of these tickets are used by groups other than these listed". The Food Committee was repeatedly promised but never given a copy of the Dining Hall budget...
Danner, given his first starting role because Dick Woolston was slightly ill, turned in the best individual performance of any Harvard player this season. After a routine first half, he tossed in 13 points and pulled down 18 rebounds in the second half, for game totals...