Word: ills
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Ill lay: T. S. Eliot, 76, suffering from a bronchial attack brought on by London's recent heavy smog; Mamie Eisenhower, 66, with a touch of the flu, in Palm Desert, Calif., where she and Ike are spending the winter; Harry Truman, 78, "doing nicely" after an operation for hernia, in Kansas City's Research Hospital...
Brown studied at Lane Theological Seminary in Cincinnati, spent twelve years as a pastor in Ripon, Wis., Oak Park, Ill., and Portland, Ore., before his election in 1895 as administrative secretary of the Presbyterian Board of Foreign Missions. "A divided church cannot save the world," Brown said, and with that in mind he helped organize one of the landmark events of 20th century Christian history: the Ecumenical Missionary Conference of 1900, which took the first major step toward ending the wasteful competition of church missions...
...patterns, borrowing widely from the classic Greek to the French symbolists. The results, which ranged from strum-strumming stanzas to languorous rhythms, hinted at unimaginable pagan debaucheries, hymned the fashionable cause of freedom against tyranny. But constitutionally, though he sported a manelike shock of red hair, Swinburne was comically ill-equipped to live the Byronic life he longed for. Tadpole tall and squeaky-voiced, he was forever getting drunk on the dessert wine, and more often than not had to be carried home from dinner parties...