Word: illing
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Spin-Stabilization. All other hardware seems to have functioned perfectly. The second stage, a considerably modified second stage of the ill-starred Vanguard, pushed the vehicle to 188 miles above the earth while small vernier rockets, set askew, made it spin on its axis at no r.p.m. The function of this spin-stabilization, like the spin of a rifle bullet, was to keep the vehicle from tumbling on its journey through space...
...hand mower, rakes his own leaves. His blood pressure is 135 over 90. The systolic reading is low for any man over 65; the diastolic is near the upper limit of normal-except that there are so few records of men in their 90's that normal is ill-defined. His pulse is a low 64, as it has been for years. (In highly trained athletes it tends to run below the 72 that is considered normal for the general run of sedentary humanity.) His weight, 150 Ibs. spread over a frame that now seems to have shrunk...
...marriage was ill-starred and the ioman Catholic wife, the former Marie Carmichael Stopes, eventually got an annulment. From years of married frustration (the church recognized her as virgo intacta), the 38-year-old doctor of science, authority on paleobotany (fossils) ind coal, drew the inspiration for a tract on what the marriage bed should be. Its title: Married Love...
...innumerable suits and countersuits in the law courts waned, so did Marie Stopes's sense of scientific precision. She got a few weird ideas about how the marriage bed should be placed (always in a north-south direction, "in tune with magnetic currents"). Last winter she became ill, attributed it vaguely to "radioactivity in the atmosphere." Last week, widowed since 1949, she died in Surrey...
Referring to eighty per cent of anti-Dulles State Department mail, Nixon declared that American public opinion, which he termed mis-and ill-informed, can play no part in the formulation of foreign policy. The public, he said, doesn't understand the realities of the situation...