Word: ills
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...strength of The Green Mile lies in its spiritual core. Here, Stephen King's affinity for all things supernatural and unexplainable shines through. John Coffey possesses the mysterious ability to heal wounds and illnesses with his touch; his hand starts to glow with a mystical light, and his healings are nothing short of miraculous. His touch cures Edgecomb's urinary tract infection and revives a dead Mr. Jingles, and his power is so strong that light bulbs in his proximity shatter before the sheer concentrated energy. After each healing, the harmful spirits, in the form of a black swarm...
...Ill-informed editorial ranting, public obscenity and casual accusations of "genocide" and "hatred" are a greater danger to the University than a hundred "Coming Out" dinners. To borrow the words of The Crimson's editorial, such displays truly are "an embarrassment to both conservatives and liberals of good will...
With the 4-1 lead, the team was showing no ill effects from Botterill and Shewchuk's two-week hiatus with the Canadian national team...
DECLARED INCAPACITATED. FRANJO TUDJMAN, 77, critically ill President of Croatia; by the Constitutional Court in Zagreb. His powers were temporarily transferred to Parliament Speaker Vlatko Pavletic...
...choked, dreamscapey San Francisco, refugees from the author's novels Idoru and Virtual Light navigate the blurry boundary between terrestrial reality and cyberspace, meeting a new raft of 21st century weirdos as an ill-defined societal apocalypse nears. The ferociously talented Gibson (Neuromancer) delivers his signature melange of techno-pop splendor and postindustrial squalor, but this time his teasing, multicharacter narrative leads only to an irritating head scratcher of a conclusion. Genre freaks: this appears to complete the trilogy. Connoisseurs: just reread Neal Stephenson...