Word: ills
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...April 17, 1961, the ill-fated Cuban invasion landed at Bay of Pigs. Exactly four years later, on April 17, 1965, I received from my father a letter from which I would like to quote...
...physicians soon learn they must expect instances of patients, particularly among the elderly, who seek treatment for vague ailments with ill-defined symptoms merely to have someone to talk to. When costs get out of line, and let me assure you they will, there are three possible courses of action. The first is to reduce the benefits; the second is to increase taxes; the third is to impose Government controls on the services in an attempt to control costs. We know welfare benefits are not likely to be cut back once the public has learned to enjoy them. Certainly, constantly...
...report asserted that freshmen advisors too often have had limited experience with advanced standing students and are ill-equipped to assist freshmen in mapping out programs of study. Even after the student accepts sophomore standing, he "has no one officially assigned to advise him about the unique problems of taking upper level courses with freshman exam-taking study techniques...
That's the sort of tabula rasa author-director Don Owen has constructed. His ill-concealed secret is that he himself hasn't the foggiest what poor Peter needs. Nor have any of his actors. More discipline? More freedom? Less pressure? More responsibility? Love and approbation? A swift kick in the rear...
Thus Director Mauro Morassi pries the lid off Italy's affluent society and pulls out one wriggling, upwardly mobile nobody who yearns for the sweet life at any cost. Money gives a man courage, Giulio decides, but he can ill afford courage until he starts skimping on ethics. When his firm buys land for a housing development in Sardinia, Giulio secretly snaps up an adjacent property, signing a postdated check that commits him to a venture in fast-lira speculation...