Word: ille
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...born in Pittsburgh's Hazelwood section, his father was walking a picket line as a member of the Amalgamated Association of Iron, Steel and Tin Workers. David McDonald Sr. had been a union man since he arrived in the U.S. from Wales, was hustled out of Springfield, Ill. for union activity there. Dave's mother, Mary Kelly McDonald, was the daughter of an officer of the Sons of Vulcan, an early union for iron craftsmen. Both her brothers were union men. After a brief, unsuccessful interlude of trying to run a saloon on the south side...
...believe that with proper understanding Thailand's drift can be controlled. But they have been strongly overruled by new U.S. Ambassador Max Waldo Bishop, 47, a truculent, table-pounding career diplomat, who in seven brief months has alienated many responsible Thais, demoralized his own staff and created ill will at SEATO council meetings...
...textile mills, cement-making factories began springing up, and work was begun on new roads, new irrigation projects and big harbors. To do this Turkey went head over heels into debt, mostly on short-term credits at unfavorable terms. Worse, many of the new projects proved to have been ill-planned, e.g., sugar factories where there were no sugar beets...
Joseph Wanton is character analysis in the grand manner. Done by Scottish Immigrant John Smibert, it shows a Royalist politician whose bland, irresolute features bode ill for his future fame. After Wanton became Governor of Rhode Island, he fought with soft talk the stirrings of the American Revolution, and retired the moment the storm broke. Painter Smibert's story was just the opposite. He learned his craft by studying the masters while painting carriages, came to America in 1729, when he was 40. One year later he held the first art show ever recorded in America, and became...
Many speculators made fortunes by selling short. But thousands of small investors lost heavily in the sliding market. Though Italy can ill afford to lose investment capital, hundreds of millions of dollars have already fled the country...