Word: ille
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...times, University policy has leant credence to these ill-defined feelings. One incident about which virtually all students are misinformed and about which they are all very vehement is the now notorious couch ban. On the surface it appeared like nothing more than a senseless and arbitrary use of power by the administration. Suddenly from the office of the manager of student residences came a pronouncement forbidding the use of couches in the rooms. After widespread protest, this was changed to "required registration" of couches. It is understood by some that the whole incident was merely a testing of strength...
...needs to make it agriculturally self-sufficient; instead, Rojas had spent uncounted millions on military equipment--heavy weapons, jet planes, beer, and television sets for the soldiers on whose support he depended. His few sound investments were mostly expensive industrial installations, which the country's capital-short economy could ill afford. Moreover political interference with the operation of government-owned projects further hindered the country's industrial development. Belated attempts to limit imports of "luxuries" failed to stem the tide of rising debt and ebbing reserves...
...curious Arabs, the raveled remnants of an Egyptian division, and the unhappy Egyptian Governor General of the Gaza Strip. He put his name to the surrender papers and handed over to Israel some 325 square miles of disputed real estate and the perplexing responsibility for some 250,000 ragged, ill-housed, ill-fated Palestinian refugees...
...create the necessary unity against the common threat from Russia. Anthony Eden, announcing Britain's acceptance of a cease-fire in Egypt, turned on Bulganin. At a time when Russia is "ruthlessly crushing the heroic resistance of a truly national movement of independence" in Hungary, said Eden, "it ill becomes the Soviet government to speak of the actions of Her Majesty's Government as barbaric...
Writers are passing strange, and those who herd together in writers' colonies are apt to be stranger still. Perhaps the strangest writers' colony on the North American continent is located in rolling corn-hog country on the outskirts of Marshall, Ill. (pop. 2,960) and looks rather like a struggling boys' camp, with two rows of barracks, a central cookhouse-cum-library and a pond swimming pool. Its founder and reigning queen is a bright-eyed, single-minded housemother of the literary arts named Lowney Handy...