Word: ills
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...Urbana, Ill...
...criterion for choosing TIME'S Man of the Year is the "man or woman who dominated the news of that year and left an indelible mark-for good or ill-on history." Our readers each year join in with their own nominations or attempt to anticipate our choice. We weigh their suggestions, and have given a sampling in recent letters columns; but the choice finally...
...Some cynics call King "De Lawd." He does have an upper-air way about him, and, for a man who has earned fame with speeches, his metaphors can be downright embarrassing. For Negroes, he says, "the word 'wait' has been a tranquilizing Thalidomide," giving "birth to an ill-formed infant of frustration." Only by "following the cause of tenderheartedness" can man "matriculate into the university of eternal life." Segregation is "the adultery of an illicit intercourse between injustice and immorality," and it "cannot be cured by the Vaseline of gradualism...
...northeastern neighbor. Prime Minister Jomo Kenyatta declared a state of emergency in the border region, where nomadic shiftas (raiders) from Somalia have recently stepped up their attacks on a part of Kenya that is inhabited by Somalis. The government set up a five-mile-wide buffer strip along the ill-defined border, where, it claimed, shiftas "steal cattle, beat women, threaten to murder tribal chiefs and others"; last week four tribesmen were killed and eight were injured in one raid. Kenya's Somalis have repeatedly asked to be annexed to Somalia. To prevent their secession and fight...
...time Dunne got around to writing his memoirs in 1935 (published now by his son), he had given up Mr. Dooley, and his humor had soured somewhat. He wrote his memoirs in plain cantankerous English; there was less Irish charm and more Irish temper. To begin with, Dunne felt ill at ease writing about himself without Mr. Dooley as a shield: "Disrobing in public is not to my taste. There are intellectual and spiritual pudenda as well as physical. The more clothes I put on, the better I look. I plead guilty to preferring port and Montaigne...