Word: ille
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...writing it has been my misfortune to read. Mr. Kempton is frantically groping to find a point on which to criticize when he must resort to making vulgar and sneering remarks on the Vice President's dress. Constructive criticism is good for everyone, but Murray Kempton's ill-chosen words are offensive and insulting to every decent-minded American, whether he be Democrat or Republican...
Kankakee, Ill...
...Wheaton, Ill...
...scandals shocked the U.S. conscience, but they were nothing compared to the corruption revealed in the Bureau of Internal Revenue. As the man who had presided over one of the messiest messes in Washington history, Internal Revenue Commissioner George Schoeneman was allowed to resign because of "ill health." Former BIR Commissioner Joseph Nunan Jr., convicted of evading $91,000 in income taxes for 1946-50, sentenced to five years in prison, wailed that despite his job, he simply had not been much of a tax expert. BIR Chief Counsel Charles Oliphant resigned angrily after Witness Abraham Teitelbaum said...
...greetings with the minister and with some of the islanders in neighborly, not seignioral fashion. Back home in The Eyrie, he gathers the available members of his family around a crackling fire of pine and birch logs. Now he banters, perhaps, with his granddaughter Sandra (one of John D. Ill's daughters) about her life at Vassar and his life long ago at Old Brown. J.D.R. Jr. might even relate boyhood maxims: "He Who Conquers Self Is the Greatest Victor," or "The Secret of Sensible Living Is Simplicity." Or convey his eternal hope. "I think that in a hundred...