Word: ills
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...vote, he made an unusual appearance before the TV cameras in the White House "fish room" to declare: "This is a most serious defeat for every American family, for the 17 million Americans who are over 65. [for] all those Americans who have parents, who are liable to be ill. and who have children to educate at the same time." Speaking over reporters' heads to the nation, he said that "nearly all the Republicans and a handful of Democrats joined with them to give us today's setback. I hope that we will return in November a Congress...
...Purge. Behind all the personal reasons for opposition to medicare lay the real source of much of Kennedy's trouble with Congress. Many Senators simply did not like the hasty and ill-considered compromise bill-and did not like being lumped as enemies of the aged because they wanted to vote against it. Others resented the strong White House pressure...
Success in Supply. Reggie Maudling's open, persuasive manner is the antithesis of Selwynism. Unlike his predecessor, who has always been ill at ease in the House of Commons, Maudling is a born debater with a stylish turn of phrase and a quick wit. Once, when a Labor critic jeered at the government's decision to cut beer taxes, Maudling shot back: "I detect one or two notes of acidity, no doubt arising from mixing cheap bitter and sour grapes." Maudling, whose own tastes run to dry martinis and dancing barefoot on the Riviera with his pretty wife...
Perhaps realizing that his own past ill suited him to unite Peru, Haya offered to negotiate for a coalition government with the man who finished second, Fernando Belaúnde. Instead, Belaúnde cried that Haya had been elected by fraud-an accusation investigated and rejected by Prado's respected Electoral Tribunal. So Haya agreed to give his support to the third candidate, Manuel Odria, an ex-general who had ruled Peru as a dictator from...
...McNeill was born in Galena,Ill, and raised in Sheboygan, Wis., where his father ran a small chair factory. He went to Marquette University and helped pay his expenses by working at a Milwaukee radio station. Four years of miscellaneous radio jobs after graduation finally led to Chicago and the first Breakfast Club show on the old Blue Network (now ABC) in the summer...