Word: ille
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Personally, I would rather have a daughter in a house of ill repute than a son in the AFUS...
...deep obeisance to you for an outstanding Memorial Day tribute to "The Civil War" [June 4]. There are only a few of us left who have not succumbed to that nauseating euphemism, that ill-conceived distortion of recorded history-"The War Between the States...
...first three months of 1956, 1,971 people left Israel, more than twice as many as during the same period last year. More disturbing to Zionists than the rise itself is the fact that most of the emigrants were well-established veterans with skills the little country can ill afford to lose. Most were doctors, dentists, businessmen, hotelkeepers, who gave high taxes and a bleak economic future as chief reasons for leaving. Most favored destinations: the U.S., South America, West Germany...
...cold morning after Minnesota's presidential primary, Adlai Stevenson rose early at his farm near Libertyville, Ill., stuffed his shaving kit and a pair of pajamas into his briefcase, hurried downstairs and left a penciled note for a house guest. "Sorry I had no chance to visit with you," he wrote, "but I must go into town and get to work. We've just begun to fight!-Yours, A.E.S...
Peter, a captured French soldier, and his buddy are allowed by the Germans to tend the graves of their fellow French in a bucolic cemetery on the outskirts of Brodno, Poland. Peter thinks of death as a quiet neighbor until the freight cars of ill-fated Jews rumble past and the calling and weeping of human voices is carried on the wind until it fades into the distance, "leaving behind it that same serene sky, that store of blue that bewildered birds and dying men can never exhaust...