Word: ille
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...DORSEN Penfield, Ill...
...house in Lincoln's rundown Belmont section, where Caril lived with her mother, stepfather and two-year-old half sister. For several days relatives noticed an unnatural stillness around the house; twice they came to find out why. Caril turned them away at the door, reported the family ill. Detectives called to investigate, found no one home, a note on the door: "Stay away. Everybody is sick with the flu. Miss Bartlett." Still concerned, the family came back. A search turned up not sickness but murder. Wrapped in paper in a chicken house was the body of 57-year...
...night of looting, burning and hunting down cops, the mob's blood rage began subsiding. Larrazabal's emergency junta helped satisfy the rioters by abolishing the Security Police, arresting 196 of its chief agents. The junta promised to try them on charges of torturing or ill-treating prisoners, with special attention to a police inspector-general accused of presiding over electric shock and beating sessions in a formal dinner jacket. Cost of freedom in the week's casualties: 300 killed, more than 1,000 wounded...
...become the Metropolitan's most highly publicized relief aria-pitcher in the year since she joined the company. Three times this season she substituted for ailing divas in starring roles (once, on three hours' notice and without rehearsal, she sang Donna Anna when Eleanor Steber fell ill), while maintaining her own schedule of Toscas, Leonoras and Aïdas. Unfortunately, there is more drama in her last-minute appearances offstage than on: her singing, often attractive enough, has little spark, often wins only polite applause. But she has unshatterable poise, knows how to act, makes intelligent...
...least 35 of the students who gathered for the special class at Benson Polytechnic High School in Portland, Ore. last week had reason to feel a little ill at ease. They were all local high-school teachers, and there they were with 45 of the brightest boys and girls in town, taking a course as if they were still in their teens. "Let us not let our blood pressure go up." said Instructor William Matson soothingly. "Let us not let our hearts beat too fast." Then he began his lecture on the complexities of modern mathematics...