Word: ills
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Your cover story of Conrad Hilton contains a factual inaccuracy that could confuse future guests of the new New York Hilton and cause ill will for the old man. The New York Hilton does not provide "free parking to compete with the motels...
While gambling at a London casino one night last November, Rachman felt ill. He was rushed to Edgware General Hospital, and perhaps died of a heart attack. On his wrist was a gold bracelet whose inside, as a hospital attendant described it, was covered with a series of numbers that could be either safe combinations or account numbers in Swiss banks. Whatever Rachman did with his reputed fortune of $25 million, it was not found in his personal estate, which came to about...
...size and tucked under the rat's skin, its body-powered signal would be easily heard several hundred yards away. The electrodes do not seem to bother the rat much. They have been tolerated for six months, one-sixth of a rat's normal lifetime, with no ill effects...
...British Labor M.P., a suave, beaky Etonian who left his father's paper, the conservative Spectator, to dally with fascism, then Communism, and finally settle down a little left of center, becoming Minister of Food in the postwar Labor government, imposing much-hated bread rationing and undertaking the ill-fated $100 million "groundnut" scheme, but was nevertheless one of his party's ablest thinkers; of a heart attack; in London...
...slender pejorative burden of Butor's book is contained in interwoven excerpts from a terrifying Salem witch trial, historical notes on the ill-treatment of American Indians, liberal quotes from the prospectus of Freedomland, U.S.A., and offerings from the views of various Southerners (real and imagined) on the Negro. Among them is one from that conscientious democrat Thomas Jefferson, who concluded, ". . . their inferiority is not the effect, merely, of their condition of life...