Word: grindingers
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Since the anti-Lin Piao, anti-Confucius campaign was launched with great fanfare early this year, it has given rise to a number of puzzling events. First "revisionist" (i.e., vaguely anti-Maoist) operas were vigorously attacked, and members of the Politburo were criticized in wall posters. For several months it...
That seeming aloofness only augmented Hartmann's longstanding reputation for brusqueness and abrasiveness. After he became a Counsellor to the President, his father, Miner Hartmann, 85, sent him a vial of silicon carbide, which is used in grinding steel. "You grew up on it," explained an accompanying note from...
A TIMES EDITORIAL on the day of Ford's inauguration takes a similar tack, minimizing his record (termed "far to the right of center") because, in the article's words, "whatever limitations that record may suggest...there is little question that Mr. Ford brings a dogged determination to the Oval...
Nixon had scarcely returned to Washington from a 16-day stay at San Clemente before a search was on in the White House for a new strategy for survival. Until the Judiciary Committee vote, Nixon and his aides had attempted to exploit partisan divisions on the panel. Ziegler went so...
In The Final Problem, Rosenberg argues, Holmes' description of Moriarty's academic achievements are thinly disguised parallels of Nietzsche's attainments. A later Conan Doyle criminal, Col. Sebastian Moran (see The Adventure of the Empty House), is given Nietzsche's physical characteristics (a high forehead, "the...