Word: ille
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Stevenson home on Washington Street in Bloomington, Ill. Adlai absorbed the family sense of duty, his mother's intense intellectual curiosity. She read him the classics (Dickens, Scott), pumped him with such copybook admonitions as "Observe, persist, learn." "Keep pacid and cheerful, knowing all things come to those who love the Lord and do His works." After prep school (Choate) came Princeton. To the list of heroes that included Lincoln. Great-grandfather Fell and Grandfather Stevenson Adlai added a new one: Princetonian Woodrow Wilson, whom he had met in 1912. Of all the figures in the Democratic pantheon, Idealist...
...were grateful to Dulles for having postponed a hasty solution by force. In the London Times, veteran Diplomat Anthony Eden got a lesson in diplomacy from one of his former diplomats, Sir Ralph Stevenson (until last year British Ambassador to Egypt). "Action which would result in a legacy of ill will would defeat our object," wrote Stevenson. "And in politics it is never wise to leave the opposition with no loophole of escape from an untenable position." Opposition Leader Hugh Gaitskell emphasized that the only kind of military action he would accept must not be unilateral, but under the United...
...anti-alcoholism drug which produces nausea and other physical disorders (TIME, Oct. 29, 1951). Then he learned that the company had recently doubled the amount of antiscum compound used in its color inks. Over at the ink-manufacturing plant he found that weekend drinkers were suffering the same ill effects. Dr. Lewis shut up Volunteers Puglisi and Grimes with a basin of antiscum compound, set them to playing cards and later to drinking whisky. They emerged splotched, red-eyed and drowsy. That cleared up the mystery. Like Antabuse, the antiscum compound (butanal oxime) was interfering with the complete oxidation...
...Goshen's Good Time Park, and finished eleventh. But in the next two tours of the track, The Intruder waltzed home from far back to take the $100,604 stake. Next day the Hambletonian Society announced that it was moving the "Wagon Horse" classic to the Du Quoin, Ill. State Fair...
...airmen and his only music the raucous booing of a home-town crowd. As Archie stepped through the ropes to shed his cerise-and-green cape along with his shimmering black-and-gold robe, his natty mustache and carefully trimmed imperial chin tuft quivered with scorn for the ill-mannered fans. He was more than ready...