Word: ills
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...cynic you. You pulverized potato, you spineless spinach, you mustachioed pistachio, who do you think you are? What gives you the right, let me see your papers, who gave you permission, where is your petition, you have no commission, I bet I know your mission. It's an ill wind brings you into town, and now with your new gown I guess it's legal...
...M.I.T. owns much of this land. On the Right is Santa Maria Hospital, home of the Red Sox when ill. Joyce Chen, a very wonderful lady, who came here from Korea two years ago without a yen and serves very wonderful food, now owns this very fashionable restaurant. On the left is the Charles River...
...finally his use of the adjective "Negro" to connote crime and degeneracy reveals some ill-concealed white racism. The hypodermic needle he describes as "the tool of the Negro slums". He describes seeing a "pretty girl with straight blond hair" meet a "goateed Negro" in Harvard Square, talk about drugs, and then disappear together into a Harvard building--none too subtly hinting at miscegination...
Whimsical Inventory. Many such ventures soon expire from a sad lack of managerial experience. Begun with much enthusiasm three years ago, San Francisco's Hunter's Point Co-op was underfinanced and ill-managed, soon encountered gaps in its shelves as well as in its clientele. Last month Safeway Stores rescued it from near bankruptcy, moved in to revamp its whimsical inventory, which included a $3,000 supply of imported wines. In Los Angeles a similar post-Watts effort called the "Unity Market" is now just a memory. Says Watts's Rev. James Hargett...
...rather arbitrary, there are bound to be inequities. The problem of equity becomes more acute the closer the base figure comes to the actual amount necessary to maintain a standard of living that could be described as middle class. The position of the middle class worker may be ill-informed, but it is not irrational. If he must work long hours, often at dull jobs, for his living; he may rightly think it unfair to give the same standard of living to someone who is contributing nothing to total production...