Word: ille
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Lieut. Obenauf went to the Lake Zurich, ILL. High School, did not go to college...
...proxy weddings are legal, and senior relatives may sponsor them. But under cross-examination last week, sister-in-law Yip admitted that she had not really used a rooster as Wat's proxy. Yip explained that she feared that the rooster would die before Wat returned-certainly an ill omen for Wat's marital bliss with Chan. Therefore Wat had been represented at the ceremony by a more durable cakebox...
...ill behooves one senior to take another to task for writing badly on the eve of our departure into the big, bad world which no doubt will be all too ready to berate us for ever writing at all. Fortunately, the Commencement issue of the Advocate is a good one, so kindness need not temper honesty...
...preconditioned by eating a low-residue diet (no bulky leaf vegetables, peas, corn or beans, no fat). As Captain William Bligh noted 169 years ago after he was cast away by the Bounty mutineers, some of his lifeboat companions went weeks with no bowel movement, had no lasting ill effects. For a trip to the moon, the Air Force thinks it now has an airtight zipper-type fastening for pressure suits that will enable the pilot to function like a duck hunter opening the flap on his long-Johns; the fecal matter will go into plastic bags, be deodorized...
...style of a man who believes that he has the Government Printing Office at his tax-free disposal. Yet those who are prepared to do their own, rather than the novelist's job of winnowing a peck of wisdom out of a stockpile of fact will not be ill rewarded...