Word: ille
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...When the legislature did-and also overrode Docking's veto of a sales tax increase to make up a predicted $15 million deficit-Docking emerged, in some minds at least, as the little taxpayer's frustrated friend. But Republicans are making hay with the fact that the ill-smelling Teamsters plopped $3,500 into his 1956 campaign hopper-a fact which Docking first clumsily denied and then admitted. And in crucial Sedgwick County, the local Democrats are in bad repute (Wichita, pop. 260,000) over recent scandals, e.g., the pending disbarment action against a common-pleas judge charged...
Tonight at 7:30 p.m. all roadblocks will be raised as the CRIMSON holds its second and last open house for all Harvard and Radcliffe undergraduates who aspire to positions of power, authority, or ill-fame...
...more than twelve years, as head of the ill-fated French People's Rally, and in his memoirs, General de Gaulle has made the institution of the Third and Fourth Republics responsible for France's political troubles. According to him, these institutions expressed all too faithfully the many divisions of French thought and interests. Hence the impotence of the Executive, which depended for survival on heterogenous, unstable coalitions, and which could do no more, on crucial issues such as Indochina, German rearmament or Algeria, than accumulate postponements until external events imposed their own solutions...
Still Buried. After the experiment in systematic derangement ends in scandal and squalor, Claude makes his way back to Cambon. He is weak and ill. In the writing of A Season in Hell, he chokes down his poetry and his past. His exit line: "No more words. I bury the dead in my belly...
Scene: A bar, disgustingly grubby, ill-lit, reeking of soggy cigar butts, garlic, and rancid butter. Set apart from the armpit set at the counter is a wizened skeleton of a man, with stubble on his cheeks and liquor dripping from his chin. This is Nomily Crass, pauper, sot, ne'er-do-well, and uncouth to the core. His friends call him Slum...