Word: ills
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...civility and responsible citizenship. "Our democracy is fraying," explains a Democrat, New York Senator Daniel Patrick Moynihan. "The populace as a whole is less ordered, less restrained, less measured in its judgments." Voters expect their President to stand against such unravelings, and Clinton, the G.O.P. contends, is especially ill suited to the task because of the perception that he is or has been self-indulgent. It's not just the President's past personal life, say Republicans; it is more the perception that Clinton is unfocused, an issue surfer who grabs at whatever the polls reveal as fashionable...
Gramm's problem is that unlike early front runner Bob Dole, he remains little known outside Texas and Washington. And though he is considered one of the most skilled manipulators of the media in politics, he is in some ways ill suited to national exposure. He is, by his own description, "ugly." He speaks in a deep drawl that calls to mind the often grating cadences of Lyndon Johnson. Combine that with his certain endorsement by many right-to-life groups, and an image emerges of an ungainly, deep-fried reactionary with little chance of carrying the moderate vote...
...Kent Bowen Barclay, professor of technologyand operations management, says when his sonbecame ill recently, McArthur rushed to thehospital to help...
...excess "sophmoric" [sic]? Perhaps, but then, we have always believed that "sophmoric" is the kind of accusation that, if made at all, should at least be spelled correctly. The word, by the way, means "intellectually pretentious and conceited but immature and ill-informed;" it's a term with which Ms. Rose really ought to be quite familiar. Her inchoate, snitty, schoolmarmish, resentful, achingly stupid article is an embarrassment even by Crimson standards, which is saying a lot. Adam Feldman '95 Hasty Pudding Theatricals
...athletic stardom came as a fifth-grader when I joined a little League team. By the end of the first week, the coach had convinced my mother that my talents actually equipped me better for softball than baseball. As it turned out, he was mistaken. I was equally ill-suited for softball and languished on the bench much of the season after amassing double digits in both batting average and number of fielding errors...