Word: ills
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Christian God who bade His followers feed the hungry and heal the sick and took His parables from the homely round of daily work gave material things His benediction. It has not faded because material things are more abundant now." Author Ward defines poverty, ignorance and ill health as "the ancient enemies of mankind"a phrase the President has used repeatedly since he started reading the book. And, as Johnson has done in innumerable Great Society speeches, Barbara Ward insists that freedom itself is of little worth unless it is shared...
Three more aging Labor M.P.s are also ailing, including critically ill Frank Hayman, 70, who was elected from a constituency in Cornwall last fall by the distinctly thin margin of only 2,926 votes. The sick list is a constant topic for "the ghoul school" of Tory strategists, who point out that 80 of Wilson's M.P.s are over 60, and add that since he is bound to wind up a minority Prime Minister by death or accident anyway, he might as well resign now. Laborites sometimes sound as though they were telling sick jokes in Whitehall. When they...
...with the climate, which in turn influences the amount of water that people drink. One part per million is close to ideal for a place with an average year-round temperature about 60°F. In colder climes it can well go up to 1.2 p.p.m. (as in Joliet, Ill., with an annual average temperature of 50°); in warmer places, where people drink more it should be kept down around 0.7 p.p.m...
...courthouse was gruffly told, "We don't let Nigras vote here." The locked door to the registrar's office in Alabama's Lee County bore the sign "Back Sept.1," and the office in Mississippi's Rankin County was closed because the circuit clerk has been "ill." In some counties, local registrars processed whites ahead of Negroes, then slowed to a snail's pace. In others, they let Negroes through the door only to propel them right back out after advising them to come back in 30 days to see if they had passed "the test...
Though he looked fit and healthy in his fresh white uniform, gold-topped swagger stick and black Moslem cap, Sukarno had fallen ill twice during August, probably because of his chronic kidney trouble. During his recent trip to Europe, Viennese specialists urged an operation, but Sukarno is said to fear the scalpel, since his horoscope predicts that he will die by steel...