Word: gain
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...longstanding rule of mine for interruptions at that hour. I didn't answer but waited for the second and third knocks, standing clear of the door in case the caller knocked it down or shot through it. Finally I opened the door, purposely stark naked, for you often gain a few minutes thinking time if ordered to get dressed and go with whoever is there." Now back in Nairobi, Griggs confesses that he is "beginning to feel like a midwife, a birth-of-a-nation expert...
...murder, and even passed along some lethal pills to the supposed killer outside the Boom Boom Room of Miami Beach's Fontainebleau Hotel. But the Mafia never did anything to try to kill Castro. Apparently the Mafia men involved were simply stringing the CIA along to gain its protection against FBI interference...
...untold additional tonnage is believed to exist beneath unexplored jungle. Surinam provides about one-fifth of U.S. bauxite needs. Meanwhile, the new nation has other markets and friends. Venezuela will soon give oil to Surinam in exchange for bauxite, and Brazil may build a highway through the jungle to gain another port on the Atlantic...
...sooner did Mozambique gain independence last June, however, than the new republic required everyone to join "dynamization groups" and bone up on Marxism. When the Witnesses balked, they were forced back to Malawi. There they have steadfastly refused to buy 34? cards that would make them members of Banda's Congress Party. The penalty: loss of homes and jobs. Hundreds of Witnesses are dying of starvation or disease. Young party thugs are also subjecting them to renewed violence. Awake!, the Witnesses' semimonthly U.S. newspaper, says that Malawi's "record reeks of beastliness, of insensibility to any standards...
...educational fulfillment. And decades later, after thousands of lynchings, sit-ins, marches, and prayer meetings, it is no less true that knowledge is most powerful tool in the hands of an oppressed people: "knowledge of the self, as well as knowledge of the enemy." What better place to gain that knowledge of the men who run America than in the pseudo-liberal halls of Harvard...