Word: ille
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...debate on election eve, O'Malley went on as the final speaker after two hours of shrill argument and ill-tempered accusations, and once again he threw his change-up. He was glad, he said, to be part of such a democratic process. He was sure the people were sick and tired of hearing about Chavez Ravine, and, as a matter of fact, so was he. "I'm not going to be angry with anyone," he said, "no matter which side loses." He looked and acted like a dumpy, fatherly man who could forgive his children their mistakes...
...school system, and censor the books in the school libraries. In one community in Texas, a group of parents got together and demanded that European History no longer be taught in the public schools; their demand was heeded. The Lakewood experience worked for good, the others worked for ill; but nonetheless they are all of the same fabric: the overstepping of parental bounds into the professional academic field. Even in Newton, parental groups have been able to convince the School Committee into providing Driver Education courses in the high school: a simple, reasonable request, but in a less-educated community...
Park Forest, Ill...
...full complement of 70. Of the remaining 55, two have long been prevented by political conditions from fulfilling their functions (Cardinals Mindszenty and Stepinac, prisoners of Communism), one-Poland's Cardinal Wyszynski-has been seriously hampered by difficult communications, and another -Peking's Cardinal Tien-by ill health. And in all too many cases the crushing load of responsibility in Rome falls on such old men as 85-year-old Pietro Cardinal Fumasoni Biondi, whose responsibilities Cardinal Stritch was to have shared in running the church's missionary effort throughout the world...
...talk, editorializing and plain old airborne nonsense. Tireless champion of all underdogs, Sherwood thought that he had found a great cause last April: New Mexico's Navajo Indians. Commentator Sherwood was soon berating the U.S. Government for freezing Navajo funds (it has not), arguing that the tribe is ill fed, ill housed (it is not), trying to prove the Indian kids are badly educated (they...