Word: driftwood
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Conspiracy." Two of the executives were described as "pillars of the community"-one, a vestryman of the Episcopal Church, and the other, chairman of a campaign to build a Jesuit seminary. This is an indictment not only of American business but of the American churchgoing community, which allows such driftwood to become "pillars." Ethical behavior and Sunday church attendance have no interrelation...
Stumbling ashore on Damas Cays, Rafael found a rusty, tumbledown radio tower, apparently a World War II leftover. He slept awhile, then began to build a raft of several large pieces of driftwood, which he tied together with some rusty electrical wire he found. On his third day on the island, the waves washed up a rusty but seaworthy 50-gallon drum. Placing the drum in the open center of his 6-ft. by 8-ft. raft, Rafael lashed it loosely with loops of wire so that it would not float off and left himself some slack wire to serve...