Word: eighting
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...very night of their arrival, one locomotive from the first shipment of eight was stolen, never to be recovered. Upon probing the possible motive for such a seemingly irrational act as the theft of a locomotive, I discovered that in meeting the prescribed quota of ton-kilometers-per-engine hauled, the harassed Soviet railroad official indeed stood to gain by having an extra and unaccounted-for one up his sleeve. Ironically, this locomotive got abducted before my men had a chance to change its axles to the wider track of the Russian railroads-as her crew must have found...
...running at roughly 200 per week, Viet Nam should move past Korea into fourth place some time this spring-unless the negotiators in Paris make dramatic progress. The war has been far more expensive for native combatants. South Viet Nam has suffered 73,118 military dead in the past eight years. The Viet Cong and the North Vietnamese, according to an Allied estimate based on sometimes undependable body counts, have lost 422,979 dead since...
...beyond grade school. He had been in and out of jails since his teens and had learned his law not at Howard but in prison libraries, where he researched appeals for himself and other inmates. Described as "the King of the Courtroom Fakers" by Ebony magazine, Morgan practiced for eight years in Chicago, until he was exposed. Sentencing Morgan to prison for contempt of court, the judge quipped that his name alone "was enough to drive the man to almost anything...
...Hence the cuckoo clock in Hell--keeping perfect time for eight minutes and twenty-three seconds, jumping ahead two seconds, keeping perfect time for two hours and one second, then jumping ahead a year...
Styron exhibits little knowledge and less affection when it comes to black institutions, specifically the church. Since Styron has contemplated this book since 1948, and spent eight years in the actual writing of it, it is singular that he devoted no attention at all to he Spiritualist sects, of which Turner was clearly one of the more outstanding members. Styron's character is not even well enough acquainted with the church's rhetoric to speak in the vernacular. He constantly refers to "visions" from Heaven. Modern black clergy would refer to the same Occurrences as visits from the Spirit...