Word: camped
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Wilson, Assistant Attorney General for the criminal division, had personally begun an investigation of the Fortas-Wolfson relationship. His findings were presented to Chief Justice Warren by Attorney General John Mitchell. The next day the Justice Department dispatched agents to quiz Wolfson in his cell at the federal prison camp in Eglin, Fla.; the material they wanted was in hand. Among other things, Wolfson believed that Fortas was going to intercede for him with the Securities and Exchange Commission...
...said that Los Angeles is an "experimental area for the taking over of a city by a combination of bloc voting, Black Power, left-wing radicals and, if you please, identified Communists." The evil characters that Yorty has warned of remain mostly nameless. His Red menace in the Bradley camp amounts to a campaign coordinator, Don Rothenberg, who left the party in 1956. Since then, Rothenberg has worked for Senator Eugene McCarthy's presidential bid and in the losing campaign of Oregon Senator Wayne Morse, who knew Rothenberg's background before hiring him. As for the idea...
...campaign draws to a finale, the Bradley camp believes that Yorty has overdone his scare campaign. The theory has considerable validity. One recent poll showed that 27% of those opposing Yorty base their stand on his noxious campaign strategy...
...that one monk was a doctor, the monastery was besieged with sick calls and a dispensary was opened. Much against their will, the monks were drawn into the complexities of Moroccan politics. One day during the summer of 1954, a group of Arab nationalist prisoners from a nearby detention camp, working on a water main near the monastery, complained of the heat and their thirst. The prior dispatched some monks with mint-flavored tea, a favorite Moroccan drink, for the prisoners. When the local French commandant ordered him to stop, he refused, explaining simply that it was "elementary Christian charity...
...would goof off in small groups on the fire line until the supervisor's helicopter appeared in the distance. Then the hillside would come alive with men dramatically extinguishing blazes that happened to be their own lunch fires. The fire boss would circle overhead a few times, return to camp, write his report, and then go fishing for Arctic grayling in the nearest stream. The men would then return to their routine--putting out occasional smokes on the perimeter, but telling stories or dirty jokes for much...