Word: ills
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...commit spectacular suicides before the gates of people whom they wish to curse. I find that custom barbaric. My aim was to try to stop the spreading of bad examples by ridiculing what I considered grotesque customs. I am stunned to see my well-intended purpose maliciously distorted by ill-intended elements who use my words to fit a false, ugly, obsolete and well-organized anti-Catholic propaganda which tries to present the Vietnamese people as an innocent Buddhist majority under a cruel dictatorship of Catholic minority overwhelmed by a fanatic Inquisition mood symbolized...
...solidarity last July after Vice Premier Teng Hsiao-ping failed in his effort in Moscow to end the Sino-Soviet split. When Teng returned to Peking, he was met at the airport by an unprecedented welcoming committee consisting of Mao Tse-tung and virtually every other top official not ill or on out-of-town assignment...
...Ill lay: Selman Waksman, 75, Nobel-prizewinning antibiotics pioneer, in Montevideo's American Hospital after removal of a perforated appendix (despite fears of allergy caused by prolonged contact, doctors successfully used streptomycin, which he helped discover); General Lemuel Shepherd, 67, retired U.S. Marine Corps commandant, in Bethesda Naval Hospital, Md., with a broken arm and possible concussion after being thrown by his horse; Presidential Scientific Adviser Jerome Wiesner, 48, in Otis Air Force Base Hospital with pneumonia after his 10-ft. sailboat capsized off Martha's Vineyard. A poor swimmer, Wiesner clung to the boat while...
...Speedy Scot: the 38th Hambletonian for three-year-old trotters in a world's record combined time of 5:54 for three heats around the mile track; in simmery, 90° sunshine at the Du Quoin, Ill., State Fair Grounds. Despite his speed, the colt lost the first race by a head to Florlis, who set a one-heat record...
...Kline picked 20 private patients, living at home, suffering from "pure" depression. One patient, who was also physically ill, failed to respond, and one responded feebly. But 18 showed marked improvement within 24 hours after they got an injection of 5-HTP along with oral doses of energizer drugs. Among 30 patients with different types of depression associated with hardening of the brain arteries or schizophrenia-like disorders, only seven showed marked improvement. But this is better than with previous drug treatments...