Word: ills
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...hoped that we all have some friend, perhaps more often feminine than masculine, and young than old, whose soul is of a sky-blue tint, whose affinities are rather with flowers and birds and all enchanting innocencies than with dark human passions, who can think no ill of man or God, and in whom religious gladness, being in possession from the outset, needs no deliverance from any antecedent burden...
...President said the demonstrations were 'ill-timed'--he doesn't understand that segregation is ill-timed," the impassioned clergyman proclaimed. After his speech he said Kennedy should have thought a federal injunction to restrain Birmingham police from breaking up the Negro demonstrations...
...pointed out, its 59-man crew could hardly have escaped without the loss of a single life. Besides, who would want to sink an unarmed merchantman? The U.S. announced that it, for one, had no subs in the area. A more logical explanation lay in jagged Scott Rock, an ill-defined group of reefs barely beneath the surface 120 miles southwest of Korea. The head of Japan's Maritime Safety Board was sure the Leap Forward had gone aground. "An error of navigation," he shrugged...
Bird-Sparing Spray. Responsible forestry experts argue that these ill effects can be minimized by spraying the elms in late fall or in early spring before the buds swell. At those times, few birds are around to be damaged, and when the bark beetles start flying in April from diseased to healthy elms, they are killed by the long-lasting poison. Another help would be substitution of methoxychlor for DDT. Methoxychlor is more expensive, but it kills bark beetles just as well, and it is only 10% as toxic as DDT to birds and other wildlife...
...raiser. It tells about a young civil servant who comes to an isolated village to run the post office and finds, as a legacy from lis predecessor, a wistful ten-year-old girl who is to be his servant. He teaches her to read and write; when he falls ill with malaria, she nurses him through his fever. He asks for a transfer back to the city and she hides, sobbing, when his replacement arrives. The departing postmaster walks slowly away from the village, calling to the girl to say goodbye. She appears, carrying a heavy pail of water...