Word: ille
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...become ill, I would much prefer having the grocer treat me than that Montana practitioner...
HENRY PANNUTO JR. Teacher Belleville, Ill...
Extra Push. When the ill winds moved over the Atlantic, they blew a little good. The jet stream high overhead was still moving unusually fast, and it got an extra push from the two near-hurricanes that had formed when cold air from the north mixed with tropical air. A British weather ship stationed 600 miles west of Ireland reported a 230-mile wind blowing eastward at 34,000 ft. Transatlantic airliners, hooking rides on it, broke record after record. A turboprop Britannia of British Overseas Airways made the first commercial New York-London flight in under eight hours...
...supporting cast of human symbols is not hard to identify: there are the Pythia's pious, humble parents; the lowly, kindly oracle servant ("little friend of god and man"); the mean old spy who cares nothing for god but only for his temple. These are, for good or ill, like unto other men. But the Pythia and the Wanderer are set apart because they have been touched by God; he works on them not merely "signs and wonders" but the miracle of possession. To the priestess and the Wanderer (and this is the book's message...
Russian scientific achievements have served to warn this nation that it can ill-afford to waste valuable scientific talent. Considering the present situation as well as the history of the Oppenheimer "case," the Administration should restore J. Robert Oppenheimer's security clearance...