Word: communed
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...town called Newllano. It was certainly there forty years ago, and some of it must be there still--big barracks-like buildings, perhaps, huge rotting printing presses, a dining hall, land where you can still see the marks of a plow. Newllano used to be the home of a commune called the Llano Cooperative Colony, where former Wobblies and the like from all over the country gathered in some numbers. They lived, farmed, published books and a weekly newspaper, and for a number of years staved of off foreclosure. I don't know what became of the colony; I only...
Junk thought. No graduate of the Wharton School of Business ever pur sued his ambitions at IBM with as much single-mindedness. Mark had all the inverted status symbols: a trusty old Volkswagen, a loyal mongrel dog, a commune in a good neighborhood and a larder stuffed with choice grass and macrobiotic snacks. But there is a serpent in every Eden; Mark's was mental illness...
...myself. Everyone was friendly, talkative, young and beautiful. We ate a great meal, sang some folk songs, and then someone announced that there would be a "lecture" to explain the principles that bind the family together. Again my mind was speeding--could this be a political group? Religious? Drug commune? No, no, I told myself, stop being so doubtful, keep an open mind...
...disruption took place in many Chinese communities on Feb. 4, the day that an earthquake struck an industrialized area in Liaoning province. According to the Chinese publication Earthquake Frontiers, at 6 p.m. that day an announcement was made over the public-address system in the Kuan-t'un commune: "According to a prediction by the superior command, a strong earthquake will probably occur tonight. We insist that all people leave their homes and all animals leave their stables." As an added incentive for people to go outside, the commune leaders also announced that movies would be shown...
...square in front of the detachment gate. The first film was barely finished when a strong earthquake, 7.3 on the magnitude scale, occurred. Lightning flashed and a great noise like thunder came from the earth. Many houses were destroyed at once. Of the 2,000 people in the commune, only the 'stubborn ones,' who ignored the mobilization order, were wounded or killed by the earthquake. All the others were safe and uninjured; not even one head of livestock was lost...