Word: basins
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...scene: a Brazilian government outpost called Abunari Two, on the northern fringes of the Amazon Basin. There, recently, 27 Indians of the Waimiri and Atroari tribes emerged from the jungle. Ostensibly, they came to trade for food and medicine with Gilberto Pinto Figueiredo, an official of FUNAI, the government-run National Indian Foundation, but they were clearly angry about the building of new roads through their tribal lands. They came equipped with bows and arrows decorated with red macaw feathers, a symbol of war. Even after a supply of food and gifts arrived by plane, they remained dissatisfied and agitated...
Last Refuge. Unfortunately, the Amazon Basin is the last refuge for tribes like the Waimiri and Atroari. "The Indians resent the speed and aggressiveness with which the road is being built," says João Americo Peret, a Brazilian Indian expert. "But since they can't confront the road-building machines, they take it out on the FUNAI people...
Like Socrates. Indeed the revelry that led to the Tidal Basin dunking of Stripper Fanne Foxe and Mills' onstage appearance with her at Boston's Pilgrim Theater, a burlesque house, were unusual behavior for the 65-year-old Congressman. Such escapades led to his ouster as Ways and Means chairman...
...there is something fortifying to society's conscience to know the worst about its leaders as well as the best. Somehow the Tidal Basin affair and its aftermath let us know more about the most powerful Congressman in the land than we had ever known before. He was not just the accomplished master of the legislative process, as we had presumed. He was also old Wilbur Mills, with all the temptations and weaknesses of any other man, and perhaps more...
...girl. I was never bothered by other people unless I did something myself I didn't consider right. Only when I saw that I hurt somebody's feelings, when I did something to make myself look ridiculous or not ladylike, like when I fell in the Tidal Basin, do I feel guilty. The next day I just couldn't sleep and I have been thinking ever since. It was just a stupid accident, but it happened...