Word: malignities
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BEAZLE: Very well, remember never to let the patient be fully aware of what is wrong. Even tonsillitis can be described as a malign hypertrophied condition that affects nares and pharynx and may result in paraphonia clausa. It was I, you know, who wrote the sign seen in hospitals: "Illumination is required to be extinguished on these premises on the termination of daily activities...
...Malign Planets. Last week the seers were busier than ever making their forecasts for the new year, and, as usual, their admirers could take their choice. France's Madame Frederika, voted most reliable voyante of 1966 by a poll of Paris newspapers (on the basis, among other things, of her prediction that two French scientists would win the Nobel Prize), predicted that Germany would make significant advances toward reunification and that Russia might land on the moon. England's Maurice Woodruff foresaw a turnabout in England's fortunes, the fall from power of both Castro and Lyndon...
...income from $1,000,000 worth of tax-free municipal bonds-about $40,000 annually. Miriam gets the income from $100,000 worth of similar bonds-about $4,000 annually. Both sisters contend that Billy was of sound mind in making his bequests to them but was under the malign influence of unnamed persons in leaving most of his estate to the foundation, including the $1,100,000 in municipal bonds that will revert to the foundation when the sisters...
Three years later, in a celebrated confrontation, the Senate got even and rejected U.S. participation in the League of Nations. In the scholarly lexicon, this is the classic example of the malign power of the Senate to "destroy" a U.S. President who had become an idol to all the world. In a sense it was-but not quite. The proposed treaty had been radically altered by the "reservations" added by Republican Henry Cabot Lodge Sr. Still, some thought it would be better to have this treaty than none. Wilson, however, wanted all or nothing, and he instructed the Democratic Senators...
What we need is more "overeducated Oxford s.o.b.s" [Feb. 18] in Congress and fewer "shocking exposes" that are shocking only in their intent to malign...