Word: ills
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...spent a night in jail. Unlike Capone, whom he eventually succeeded as grand vizier of Chicago crime, Tony cleverly paid his taxes on enough income from gambling and "miscellaneous sources" (more than $1,000,000 between 1940 and 1955) to justify his $500,000 mansion in suburban River Forest, Ill. and his lavish vacations in Florida. Even when the feds started pressing for a more detailed accounting of his sources of income, Tony had an angle: he went Capone one better and got himself a job. It was possibly the worst mistake he ever made...
...Unsophisticated. A retiring man, Miller complained a bit about "living in a fish bowl," but beyond that the Millers managed to keep their marriage to themselves, out of the public eye and prints, except for three ill-fated pregnancies, all of which ended in miscarriage...
...discussion to the subject of the Field House, Miss Porritt said that it was too weak structurally to hold any number of books, and therefore was not being seriously considered as a library extension anyway. 'Cliffies agreed that it was useful for occasional organization meetings, but that it was ill-equipped for study...
...petition, sponsored by the Harvard-Radcliffe Liberal Union, urged an end to the "ill-conceived" embargo, "willingness to negotiate "over Guantanamo Bay," and an effort to keep open "avenues of communication." It also urged President Eisenhower not to commit his successor irrevocably on the Cuban issue...