Word: ills
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...inborn bayou cunning and every parliamentary trick and threat learned in 18 years on Capitol Hill, Louisiana's Russell Long has managed to mire the U.S. Senate in a month-long procedural gumbo. While many more pressing issues clamor for attention, the assistant majority leader has made his ill-conceived, hastily passed 1966 Presidential Election Campaign Fund Act the upper chamber's overriding concern. The measure would give up to $30 million each to the Republican and Democratic parties from $1 contributions checked off federal income tax returns. Though the Senate has already voted three times to repeal...
...informed with bits of plot summary between musical numbers. Fidelio's typical rescue-opera plot was ridiculous distilled into narrative prose and recited with a straight face. Furthermore, Hathaway had his soloists marching on and off stage, simulating the enrtances and exits of a stage performance. These movements were ill-planned, ill-timed and meaningless...
There are no lasting ill effects from the acute use of marihuana, and fatalities have not been known to occur...
...reform: larger credit facilities through the IMF. To achieve that, France merely dropped its two-year opposition to devising any contingency plans at all and its generally unpopular demand to study whether the price of gold should be raised. Comparing the Six's action to Britain's ill-fated prewar efforts to placate Adolf Hitler, Britain's weekly The Economist fumed: "Munich has once before been a synonym for the unsuccessful appeasement of unreason. It may have become so again...
...Fogelman alleged that street residents had complained to the owners that "we were ruining their neighborhood by bringing in mentally ill, or crazy people, and students who were odd-looking and beatniks of strange appearance...