Word: illing
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...have had a somewhat vaguely defined sovereignty over the area since 1906, developed some oilfields in the Sinai, but for the most part they preferred to preserve it as a buffer zone between themselves and the Israelis. To the Egyptian peasants, the region seemed a scorched, treeless moon scape, ill-suited for settlement. They preferred the congested misery of their villages in the fertile Nile Valley...
Nkomo insisted that the Rhodesians had hit a refugee center for young, old and ill Zimbabweans at Chikumbi. "We even had some blind people there," he said after the raid. Medical teams in Lusaka who treated the casualties said most of the injured were young men of military age wearing green fatigue uniforms...
...notorious Borgia family. Alonso de Borgia, elected as Callistus III (1455-58), made the papacy a family affair. So did his nephew Rodrigo, who became Alexander VI in 1492 and named four nephews, as well as his illegitimate son Cesare, Cardinals. In 1503, both father and son fell gravely ill. Alexander died after a week's illness; Cesare survived. It is widely thought that the two master poisoners accidentally partook of the poisoned beverage that they had intended for a rival Cardinal...
...local Indians. The Indians called it Ouabouigou, which means "shining white." Fittingly enough, in 1880 Wabash became the first town in the world to install electric street lights. An uninspired Ezra Pound pined away on the Wabash faculty until he was dismissed after allowing a destitute woman of ill repute to spend a night in his room, an act which offended the straightlaced morals of the town...
Everyone should be aware of the insults leveled at the student negotiators by Ira A. Jackson '71, assistant dean of the Kennedy School and the man directly responsible for bringing a portion of Engelhard's ill-gotten millions to Harvard. He questioned whether we were fit to be members of an institution of higher learning. He and Epps made thinly-veiled threats of arrest, of disciplinary action by Harvard, and of our being held responsible for the actions of what used to be called "outside agitators." And when the possibility of returning the donation was discussed, Jackson asked, "Where...