Word: ills
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Further, those vague and ill-supported charges are leveled at a man who, by devoted and intelligent service, has added hundreds upon hundreds of well-paying summer and term-time jobs to our financial aid operations for needy students, and has built our employment service until it is one of the strongest in the country...
...Liberal Democratic in its politics, the Denver-headquartered Farmers Union counts on its membership rolls some 300,000 families, mainly in the wheat country of the Great Plains and the Rocky Mountain states. Of the union's 61 annual conventions, only two have been held east of Springfield, Ill.: one in Washington, three years ago, and last week's gathering in New York...
...problem-plagued virgin lands of Kazahkstan (TIME, Jan. 4). But he could hardly have guessed the extent of the mess he would inherit from his purged predecessor. Last week Yusupov published a report charging that more than $600 million had been wasted during the last three years on ill-conceived projects; no fewer than 16,139 regional officials were fired last year alone, 2,340 of them for stealing and embezzling $1,270,000. A gang of crooks led by the chief of the Tselinograd Trade Board faked reports, rigged phony prices, and sold meat, butter and automobiles...
...Ill lay: Lord Home, 59, British Foreign Secretary, downed by gastric flu, canceling all engagements prior to scheduled departure for Japan, at his London home; Indonesia's President Achmed Sukarno, 62, "maintaining routine vigilance'' after treatment of kidney ailment by specialists from Peking, in Djakarta; Burt Lancaster, 49, 1963 Oscar nominee, with infectious hepatitis, at home in Hollywood; Edward J. ("Knocko") McCormack, 69, freewheeling Boston Democratic leader and brother of House Speaker John W. McCormack, recuperating from cancer surgery, at Veterans' Hospital, Jamaica Plain, Mass...
...fatal in 70% of cases. But now the Navy doctors had no need to panic. It was at this same San Diego base 20 years ago that sulfa drugs had proved an almost sure cure for meningococcal meningitis and, no less important, a superb preventive. Wilkowski, severely ill, had to have sulfadiazine intravenously, so he got penicillin as well. All 80 men in his company were ordered to take sulfadiazine tablets twice a day for three days...