Word: ills
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Curiously, all of these open seats seem as attractive to potential candidates as tickets for a ride on the ill-fated great ship. In an article in the March 15 New York Times, Richard Berke documents the difficulties both parties are having attracting quality candidates. Despite personal pleas from the President and Speaker of the House and promises of money from Washington, Republicans and Democrats from across the country are choosing to pass up the chance to serve...
...petition written by Herzfeld and co-signed by 14 of his colleagues urges the Allegheny board of trustees to "reject this ill-advised decision at the expense of one of your most accomplished and internationally renowned professors...
...been on the mountain for several weeks, acclimatizing and waiting for spring storms to let up, when eight climbers from two commercially-run ventures died on top of Everest (the episode chronicled in Jon Krakauer's recent best-selling "Into Thin Air"). The leader of one of the ill-fated groups was Rob Hall, an Everest veteran and a close personal friend of Viesters. As his body froze, Hall managed to contact the IMAX team via radio. In a moment saved from kitschyness by being non-fiction, the IMAX team managed to patch him through to his pregnant wife...
F.D.R. was the best loved and most hated American President of the 20th century. He was loved because, though patrician by birth, upbringing and style, he believed in and fought for plain people--for the "forgotten man" (and woman), for the "third of the nation, ill-housed, ill-clad, ill-nourished." He was loved because he radiated personal charm, joy in his work, optimism for the future. Even Charles de Gaulle, who well knew Roosevelt's disdain for him, succumbed to the "glittering personality," as he put it, of "that artist, that seducer." "Meeting him," said Winston Churchill, "was like...
...however, that dominated the alliance, as he ruefully recognized at the last Big Three conference in February 1945. Shortly afterward he suffered the domestic humiliation of losing the general election and with it the premiership. He was to return to power in 1951 and remain until April 1955, when ill health and visibly failing powers caused him to resign...