Word: ille
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Jordan-held sector of the Holy City still lay in shock after riots in which at least 56 Arabs died protesting the ill-timed British proposal that their country join the new Baghdad pact for a Middle East anti-Communist front. The U.N.'s patient mediator, Canada's Major General E.L.M. Burns, announced that both the Israelis and Egyptians are still blocking the latest plan for a border truce, and are both violating the armistice regularly. The governments of Egypt, Saudi Arabia and Syria, making common cause of their enmity to the Baghdad pact, appointed Egypt...
Ornes now plans to look for a job in the U.S. While he looks, he should have ample time to meditate on what that one ill-tombed caption cost him: his substantial savings, the paper (which he held under a Trujillo-granted loan of $640,000), an income of around $50,000 a year, and a $60,000 villa. Bootlicking El Benefactor, it would appear, is a remunerative business-while it lasts...
...capabilities, are up against a heavier problem than any school system has ever faced before. Out of the controversy, it seems, one thing is sure: Flesch's accusations that the public school has abandoned phonics and that before it did, the U.S. had no reading problem, are as ill-founded as his claims that other countries use only phonics and have no reading difficulties...
...situation bodes ill for the future. Already cross country and wrestling have submitted petitions seeking major sports status. In addition, there are eight other minor sports which may soon be clamoring for major recognition. What will the Council do when it has 19 sports and only 12 color combinations...
...this on a background of chrome yellow with childish little bouquets of wild flowers. A room for a pure young girl . . ." To Vincent van Gogh, to whom nature was everything, it was Gauguin's sunken eyes that spoke. He wrote his brother Theo: "He looks like a prisoner, ill and tormented." Theo struggled to raise Gauguin's fare to Aries...