Word: ills
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...There were skeptics, of course, but they were shouted down by the kind of evangelism that caused the New York Post to describe the founding convention in San Francisco as "the most important human gathering since the Last Supper." South Africa's Jan Smuts, a veteran of the ill-fated League of Nations, was equally hopeful. After scribbling a rough draft of the U.N. Charter's preamble on a cigarette packet, he told reporters: "This time we will pull it off. We have learned our lesson now." But there were many bitter lessons ahead...
...argue that the U.N. has no power to make any member do anything it does not want to do, such as pay for peacekeeping. And they have a case: the U.N. was conceived as a loose association of sovereign states. But at the same time it also carried the ill-defined hint of being an embryonic world government and the hope that the members would sacrifice their sovereign interests for the sake of international cooperation. That hope, however noble, was premature. Among other realities, it ignored two developments: the cold war and the death of colonialism...
...judge vanished on an alcoholic binge. Indignantly, California's now retired Chief Justice Phil S. Gibson spurred a bar-bench study that turned up a surprising number of shocking statistics. Of five judges in one county, four had been absent for as long as a year because of ill health. Despite mounting case loads, other judges thought nothing of taking three-month vacations and playing golf during court hours. Others needed psychiatric care; many were just plain aged...
...instant Telstar TV images and photojournalism, the role of portraiture, once a mainstay of the painter's profession, often seems to have fallen by the wayside. But when Parliament decided to honor Winston Church ill on his 80th birthday, it instinctively turned to one of England's finest artists, Graham Sutherland. Churchill loathed the result, kept the oil hidden away. Still, when Churchill died, the public turned to Sutherland's image, saw in its pugnacious, bulldog mien the true essence of their wartime leader...
Bored one night on the subway, and reflecting on my ill-spent youth, I noticed a passel of pre-paid post cards dangling overhead. Wayne School in Chicago offered me--free and with no obligation, a card said--a booklet that would tell me how I could complete my high school education at home. I sent in the card...