Word: ills
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Passed, in the House, and moved on to the Senate a fiveyear, $25 million program to match state expenditures providing nursing-home care for aged and chronically ill war veterans...
Segregationist attempts to crack the solid North will not rest solely on Wallace's shoulders, however. In Princeton, the Whig-Cliosophic Society announced that Mississippi Governor Ross R. Barnett has accepted an invitation to speak Oct. 1. President Robert F. Goheen called the invitation "untimely and ill considered" and said it did not imply endorsement by the university of Barnett's views and actions...
...pleads for such reforms as internationalization of the Roman Curia, reduction of its power, greater authority for regional councils of bishops. He speaks of "reactionary doctrinaire tendencies" in certain council fathers, and dismisses the agenda items drawn up for the council by the Curia-dominated preparatory commission as "ill-prepared, partisan schemata...
Kidney defects or malformed hearts in newborn infants show a definite relationship to at least four viruses-three of the Coxsackie and one of the Echo group, all distantly related to poliovirus. The infection may be so mild that the mother-to-be does not appear ill. To get their evidence, University of Michigan researchers followed 4,000 women through pregnancy, making frequent tests of blood antibodies to keep tab on the viruses they had picked...
...good question as to why Il Corsaro was chosen in the first place. Except for his disastrously bad Alzira, it represents Verdi's single lapse from musicianship and inspiration, and the preposterous libretto, inspired by Byron's The Corsair-the story of an Aegean pirate whose ill-starred romance leads to murder and suicide-scarcely helps matters. The one pleasing aria and the single engaging duet could hardly be expected to mollify a fastidious audience. Even the most pious Verdi worshipers could not help applying to their hero the only couplet in Byron's windy poem that...