Word: ille
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...kinds of difficulty which arise in University students' lives are indicated somewhat by the list of diagnoses published each year by the Hygiene Department in its report to the President of the University. During the past year, 13 students became ill with "major psychoses" such as schizophrenia and manic-depressive reactions, and were committed to mental hospitals. Three students, none of whom were under psychiatric care here, committed suicide. Anxiety neuroses occur the most frequently, and what are known as "affective disorders" next most frequently. Alcoholism involved five people, and drug addiction none. Interpersonal problems were frequent...
...group agreed to give up on such men of ill will as would not pay Council pledges and passed to another topic, that of a ride bureau. This bureau answers phone calls and helps people get rides and riders for trips. It sounded like a good thing. The problem was to get someone to answer the phone...
...indisputable influence. He has served six consecutive House terms, is pastor of one of Harlem's biggest churches (the Abyssinian Baptist, with 9,500 members), and, above all, has a demonstrated talent for bypassing the intellectuals and communicating directly with the Negro man-in-the street. 2) His ill-fated Powell Amendment to the school-construction bill (no federal money for segregated schools) and his battle for its adoption during the last session of Congress made the name of Powell a Negro household word. 3) Sensitive to the slightest change in the Negro political pulse, Adam Powell doubtless feels...
...Coleman explained that segregation would continue in Mississippi "for at least the next 50 years. We don't intend to obey the Supreme Court's decision because it is not based on law." But, he assured the newsmen, "there is no tension or malice or ill will between the races. I have not heard of any trouble where [Negroes] have voted." Most Negroes do not vote, he said, because of unwillingness to pay the poll tax or failure to pass a literacy test...
...Trojan Truce. But Kemal's tireless Turks had stopped the Allied expedition at the beachheads. In London Church ill was tumbled out of the Admiralty. At Gallipoli the battle bogged down in stalemate. One million men, Allied and Turk, were pinned down in a rocky battleground no more than 25 miles long by 13 miles wide; in places the trenches were only ten yards apart. Across the narrow no man's land, men exchanged gifts of food and cigarettes as well as shots...