Word: ills
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...ironic and sad that Lyndon Johnson, friend of the Negroes, will be defeated in November by an uneducated white populace outraged over the continuing violent demands of crusading Negroes. The ill timing of the leap forward in the civil rights field will unfortunately result in leaps backward in many fields with the inauguration of President Goldwater...
...pineapple. After flying low across the embattled countryside with Kong Le, McCulloch wrote: "Laos is one of the loveliest lands on earth, and it is a bitter travesty that such a land and the gentle people who inhabit it should be caught up in a war they are ill prepared to fight but cannot be allowed to lose...
...into making a charge that he later regretted. Discussing Goldwater's refusal to meet him in a face-to-face television debate, Scranton said: "I think this indicates an apparent lack of courage to face people." Later, in Denver, Scranton apologized, said his remark had been "ill-advised." "I know Goldwater has personal courage," he explained. "No one denies that. But since the New Hampshire primary, he has been guarded and hemmed in by the politicians around him lest he express his personal views...
...next fight, for it was here that he expected the Communists to resume the attack. Kong Le and his headquarters looked worn, scruffy, far from impressive. But he stood almost alone in Laos last week as the West's only effective battler against Communism. With only 3,000 ill-paid, ill-trained troops supplied only infrequently by airdrops, Kong Le's prospects seemed poor. His spirit did not. "Whether we win or lose," he said, "I'm afraid there is not much choice except to fight until we can fight no longer...
Always out of pocket and always complaining, like Beethoven, of his ill health (he had "overworked" his brain, he said, during a brief stint on the old New York Tribune and never recovered), Thayer labored for 40 years correcting dates, altering anecdotes and filling in the vast gaps in the Beethoven chronology. Because he could not find an English publisher, the Life came out, volume by volume, in German; by the time it appeared in English in 1920, it had long been regarded by scholars as a classic and its author had been dead for 23 years. Though long...