Word: ille
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...never had Jim Holloway played so far above his own head. For 3^ years his wife Jean, daughter of Major General Johnson Hagood, U.S.A., was incurably ill with cancer. Holloway would leave his quarters in Washington at 6:20 a.m., play a lonely nine holes of golf with his single adjustable-head golf club at the Army and Navy Country Club, put in a full day's work with not a mention of his wife's illness, then spend the evening at the hospital with her before taking a long walk home, as he put it, "to become...
...chilly waters. Des Moines' Ashworth swimming pool has had 34,000 fewer customers so far this year than last. Peoria's "Heart of Illinois Fair" was almost washed out of the heartland last week; dripping dairy princesses sloshed to the judging under plaid umbrellas. And in Quincy, Ill. Librarian Caroline Sexauer reported that the combination of unemployment and rainy weekends has made more people borrow more books than ever. Once they defined the wet summer's cause, meteorologists last week volunteered more bad news. The stubborn planetary winds show no sign of changing their tactics. Early August...
...When the news got out that I had been banned from the European hospital, a European youth grabbed me by the tie in a fit of rage and nearly throttled me. He thought it was a crime that I should want to be beside my wife when she was "ill...
When President Basil O'Connor announced the decision that had become an ill-kept secret (TIME, July 21), the foundation was accused of claim jumping on an area already staked out and actively worked by another group, the Arthritis and Rheumatism Foundation. Also headquartered in Manhattan, it has Industrialist Floyd B. Odium as chairman and World War II's brush-cut General George C. Kenney as president. Founded in 1948, it has raised progressively larger amounts in annual fund drives, took in almost $3,000,000 last winter...
...some types of cases the operations have now been simplified, and they are being done in more and more hospitals, many in smaller cities. Example: Karen Lee Gordon, from Pana, Ill., went to St. Mary's Hospital in nearby Decatur (est. pop. 75,000) for five operations to correct a complicated no-gullet anomaly. Last week, out of the hospital in time for her fifth birthday, she was eating normally, tasting and swallowing food, for the first time in her life. She even had sausage for breakfast...