Word: ills
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Kansas City was up in arms. Missouri Senator Stuart Symington was screaming for "justice," and there was talk of a congressional investigation that could spell doom for baseball's special exemption from federal antitrust laws. Besides, the other owners had long regarded Charlie Finley and his antics with ill-concealed dislike...
...facts, and even when working with non-factual questions he is used to writing bluntly and without qualification. He makes no attempt to conceal his hatred of the Puritans, for instance. They are "fanatics," "frightful kill-joys," and "obnoxious," while one of their leaders, Robert Browne, is "un-attractive, ill-tempered, wife-beating." In reading his histories, one may simply take note of Rowse's strongly stated biases, and correct for them in matters of opinion. But when he brings to literary criticism the same assertiveness, and fails to provide the evidence on which he makes his assertions...
...able to achieve the sustained high overall growth rate (7.4% on average) that marked its economy in the 1950s. The government, it said, "is trying to do too much with too few resources," notably in space and defense spending-upwards of $40 billion in 1962-which drains off ill-spared capital, plant and brains from the civilian economy...
...basic facts about the ill effects of smoking on health have been known for years. But the Government kept shying away from the problem. Not until 1962 did President Kennedy, under mounting pressure from medical groups, decide that the Government should make its own study. Surgeon General Luther L. Terry of the U.S. Public Health Service was charged with naming an expert committee to decide, simply, "Is smoking...
...dirty-minded Harvard students are apparently ill-bred, licentious, decadent, lusty, oversexed, akin to the lower animals, undisciplined, and bent on destroying female virtue and jeopardizing stable society, the New England Journal of Medicine suggested in an editorial this week...