Word: hi
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Cuban casualties in Africa are rarely mentioned in the heavily censored news reports published at home. An informed Western estimate, however, sets the number of Cuban dead and wounded hi Angola and Ethiopia at roughly 1,800. A few of the "walking wounded" have returned home, but the severely injured are generally treated and confined in East German and Soviet hospitals. The dead are buried on African soil...
...turns out, that hypothesis was mostly hyperbole, the outgrowth, perhaps, of fantasies spun by helpless Russians who in fact could scarcely utter a whisper against the system of mass police terror. Gulag HI marks a judicious turnabout: "The Communist regime has not been overthrown in sixty years, not because there has not been any struggle against it from inside, not because people docilely surrendered to it, but because it is inhumanly strong, in a way as yet unimaginable to the West...
...Says one staffer: "We can't keep up with him. He's an electric mosquito." The former Textron Inc. chairman roams the Fed's cold marble halls at a slow jogger's pace, thrusting out his hand to someone he does not know and saying, "Hi, I'm Bill Miller." He signs memos "Bill," calls almost everyone at the Federal Reserve by his first name, and works in shirtsleeves...
...used to get a little exciting sometimes when the sheriff would pull into the parking lot. These guys would all be in the patrol room smoking like crazy, and somebody would have to go out and say 'How you doing Sheriff Henderson? Howseverythingtonight?' He'd say, 'Hi, you guys staying up here again?' 'Yeah.' 'Well, everything okay in there?' And you'd say, 'Yeah, no problems.' Then he'd get back into the car and leave, and you're sweating, dropping bricks, afraid he's going to come inside and look around, and that would be it for everybody...
...mahogany talk show, she woke too late for breakfast, grabbed a few pieces of candy on the way out of her Sherry-Netherland suite, reached the TV studio on time, politely declined an offer to redo her hair and makeup, and was greeted by the off-putting Siegel with "Hi, hi, hi. And who are you?" She smiled as if he had offered her one perfect rose...