Word: ills
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...instance, also harsher. Mary, 37, is pregnant again, and her and Vili's second child, when it is born, will be Exhibit A in the likely case that the local prosecutor will bring fresh charges of rape against her. Though she has persuaded her prison keepers that she is ill enough to stay in the infirmary--which is equipped with a phone that she uses constantly--prison is still a terrible place to be pregnant. The appeal of her original case will take weeks just to plan, weeks more to be heard, weeks more to be decided. Susan Howards...
...entire experience would have been just dandy, had it not been for the Teaching Fellow from Hell. In short, you were duped. Wronged. Spurned. Maligned. Dropped into the dust heap of "Rank Group III". You are no longer dealing with a handful of wrath or a smattering of ill-will. Oh, no. The time has come for revenge...
...Polish-American descended from serfs who lived under the oppression of Russian imperialists, I find this comment so absurd I would laugh if it didn't make me ill. My ancestors were serfs unit 1861, when Alexander II of Russia finally emancipated them. Afterwards, they lived in wretched poverty and were constantly harassed by the Russian government because they were Catholic. My family moved to the United States during the 1930's, where they progressed to just regular poverty and religious discrimination. I grew up in a working-class family of eight and received the same public education that...
...death. People live in tar-paper shacks with no indoor plumbing." This incensed Governor Zell Miller, who's from those parts. "Maybe the view from your penthouse apartment is not as clear as it needs to be," he groused. Fonda apologized instantly, saying her remarks were "inaccurate and ill-advised." Peachy...
RELEASED. WANG DAN, 29, Chinese dissident who helped lead the ill-fated 1989 democracy rallies in Beijing; on "medical parole" from an 11-year sentence for subversion. He flew to the U.S. for treatment...