Word: hearings
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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They went through the shelves and other cabinets with hammers, hacking the doors open. I could hear the pounding and the smashing and crashing. I was really sweating that they would start crashing through the sink. They used the sink the whole time. I'm surprised they didn't look under it because they were breaking into everything else...
...farm country where the Depression came early and stayed long. Hubert Horatio Sr., the "town rebel," the Democratic chairman of Republican Spink County who joshed about his wife's being "politically unreliable" (she voted for Harding and Coolidge), the kind of father who sat Junior on his knee to hear Wilson's Fourteen Points and who read Bryan's cross-of-gold speech to the family "at least twice a year," did not bring up his son to espouse pliable convictions...
...inhabitant, which will be moved to the camp-in site-as soon as one can be agreed upon. Congressional pressure against allowing the marchers to use federal land is mounting. Interior Secretary Stewart Udall has been cool to the use of the Capitol Mall, where crowds gathered to hear King deliver his ringing "I have a dream" speech in 1963. A likely compromise may be West Potomac Park near the Lincoln Memorial, a magnet for tourists...
...ever comes when U.S. tourists start traveling in any numbers through China-travel there now is discouraged by both the State Department and Peking-they will find a wealth of practical information in Nagel. The guide gives the number to call in Peking (07), if you want to hear the correct time in Chinese, reveals that in China there is no cheating in commerce, no cheese, no tipping, and "absolutely no night life"-and very few flies, either. The trains run on time, and Chinese guests, one should be forewarned, usually arrive a few minutes early. The visitor should...
...Canon Felix Kir, 92, French Roman Catholic priest famed as a war hero and politician, and remembered as the namesake of a smooth potion concocted of white wine and currant or blackberry liqueur; of injuries suffered in a fall; in Dijon. Tough-minded and sharp-tongued, Kir (rhymes with hear) took over the mayoralty of Dijon (pop. 96,000) in 1940, when city officials fled the Germans, and led the local resistance throughout the war. Dijon's citizens voted him in as mayor in every election from 1945 to the present, and though he often proved a thorn both...