Word: ills
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...General Raymond Wheeler, who cleared the Suez Canal for the U.N. Last week, obviously contemplating years of close U.N. involvement in Congo affairs, Hammarskjold produced a terse memorandum outlining the structure of a long-term U.N. civilian mission to the Congo which would supply the Congo's ill-educated, inexperienced Cabinet with experts in ten fields from finance to public health. It was too late now to blame Belgium for not training the men, to blame Congolese for incompetence, or to blame the climate of the times for giving the Congo its independence before it was ready...
Double Life. Until ill health forced his retirement (a nervous disorder affected his hearing so that high-pitched notes came through to him tremulous and distorted), Ives led a demanding double life: he composed on weekends, during his lunch hours and en route from New York to his weekend retreat in Connecticut. Somehow, he turned out a tremendous quantity of work, only a fraction of which has survived (five symphonies, some violin and piano music, more than 120 songs, and the fine choral work, Lincoln the Great Commoner...
...columnist, Walker wrote with an obvious ban vivant zest that to Daily News readers made substance unnecessary. "I've been accused of being a gourmet," Walker boasted. "Nuts, all I can say is that I have tried everything put before me and never suffered any violent ill effects." A bachelor, he liked ballroom dancing and escaped the heavy bores on his rounds by fleeing to the dance floor. "When you're a columnist," he said in the epilogue to his 1955 autobiography, Danton's Inferno, "you have to run just as fast as you can to stay...
...your ill-mannered article on yoga [July 11], you have made no bones about the fact that you consider, along with Benedictine Déchanet, the Hindu conception of God as the Supreme Self as absurd...
...promenade-grandma, children and grandchildren-so that everyone can admire us." Her eyes are drained by constant weeping, and when she cries, it is not for her son but "for her own wasted life." She implores Christ's followers not to listen to him: "He's ill ... ill ... ill...