Word: illing
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...reception at the British High Commission in Lusaka, a group of her expatriate countrymen advised her, "Don't be bullied, Prime Minister." She replied coolly, "I am not bulliable." But she realized that her earlier comments in support of the Salisbury government of Bishop Abel Muzorewa had been ill-advised and had offended many Africans. She has since accepted the view of colleagues, including her Foreign Secretary, Lord Carrington, that whatever London does about Zimbabwe-Rhodesia must have broad international support, especially from African states, the U.S. and Western Europe...
...message to his Georgia wife, asking her to aid his escape. She came to the island dressed im men's clothing, and managed to reach his cell before being discovered. Fighting her way out, she unfortunately killed her husband when the pistol she was carrying exploded. But her ill luck was not quite through. Prison authorities ordained that she must die, and so she did, but before she hung she made one request--that she be allowed to meet her maker in women's clothes. A black dress, last used by the lonesome troops for some ribald vaudeville,was found...
...write from experience is an admission of felonious guilt...So, despite the fact that the whole journalism industry is full of unregenerate heads it is not very likely that the frank, documented truth about the psychedelic underworld, for good or ill, will be illuminated at any time soon in the public prints...
...Call directed in 1971 was largely a failure, but William Ball had managed in 1960 to turn out the finest Tempest I have ever seen, thanks to a strong cast headed by Morris Carnovsky's Prospero, Clayton Corzatte's Ariel, and Earle Hyman's Caliban. And this despite the ill-advised total omission of the opening storm scene...
...festival, organized by a group called the Midwest Pagan Council, reflected what some religious leaders find to have been a rather rapid spread of neopaganism around the country over the past decade. J. Gordon Melton, an Evanston, Ill., Methodist minister who heads the Institute for the Study of American Religion, reckons that there may be as many as 40,000 practicing pagans today. They constitute, says Melton, "a neopaganist movement, a modern revival of the rituals and faith by people who were not raised in them...