Word: ills
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...delay implementation of any reapportionment schemes until such time as the Congress and the states could effect a constitutional amendment barring jurisdiction of the federal courts. To this end, Ev Dirksen filed a rider onto the foreign aid bill. It was a shrewd move: President Johnson could ill afford to veto foreign aid just to kill an obnoxious amendment. Dirksen's proposal required that federal courts, "in the absence of unusual circumstances," automatically grant stays in reapportionment cases if so much as one citizen in an affected state requested it. To Senate liberals and Administration loyalists, the Dirksen rider...
Cook County (Chicago), Ill 57.6 months
...repeated by the G.O.P.: "Yesterday it was Korea; tonight it is Viet Nam. And yet the President . . . refuses to say. refuses to say, mind you, whether or not the objective over there is victory . . ." Plagued by the civil rights and law-and-order crises at home, Lyndon Johnson can ill afford a debacle abroad...
...rain came Premier Lai Bahadur Shastri, 59, looking none the worse for his apparently mild heart attack. Bustling in and out of his office, he paid two long visits to President Sarvepalli Radhakrishnan, presided over a lengthy cabinet meeting, tartly denied that he had been totally incapacitated while ill, insisted that he had worked seven hours a day at home during the later stages of his convalescence...
...small coterie of individuals devoted to perpetuating ancient and customary injustices and Dickensian practices in law against individuals, seamen, railroad workers, union members, pedestrians, motorists, and those belonging to minority groups and unpopular causes." Craig himself had acted "willfully and wantonly and maliciously and viciously and with ill will and in spite and in an attempt to obstruct justice and deter the orderly administration...