Word: huntly
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...stepped-up campaign planned by the Attorney General and the chief of the FBI can be anchored firmly to existing law and guided by the sound principles of individual guilt and innocence which have previously applied, the pitfalls of the witch hunt and political persecution can be avoided in this country. [But] it would help to keep the air clear and avoid misconceptions all around if there could be less indulgence of such colorful-but loaded-phrases as "utterly destroy the Communist Party, U.S.A...
Pick never got to Mexico. Instead, while passing through Grand Junction, Colo., he heard so much talk about the hunt for uranium that he caught the fever himself...
Torture in the Canyon. Businessman Pick went about prospecting in a businesslike way. He went to the local office of the Atomic Energy Commission, asked a mining engineer named Charles A. Rasor where he should hunt. Rasor walked to a map on the wall and drew a circle around an area near Hanksville, Utah, an isolated town of some 80 people, with no electric light or telephone, near Muddy Creek, a tributary of the Colorado. Said Rasor: "If I were going prospecting, that's where...
...yourself hobbyist? One needs to be a jack-of-all-trades, attending to . . . the dishes, watering, bathing the kids and dog; weeding, washing the car, answering the phone and door. Then there's the errand running: upstairs for the hammer, down the basement to hunt for the missing pipe wrench. "Hold this board at just this angle at just this moment." "Please get me some more putty." There is sanding. Especially the corners and awkward spots which won't respond to power equipment held in other hands...
Compared to the splendid enterprise led by Hunt, the Izzard expedition was a joke. Against some 360 coolies, Izzard had five. He had no map or compass and his equipment consisted in part of two pairs of sneakers, a few pots, an old U.S. Army pup tent, an umbrella to ward off the leeches that fell like leaves from the trees. The incongruous team traveled fast and far over rough country carpeted with rhododendrons, orchids and magnolias. Izzard had never climbed anything more formidable than a flight of stairs, but he caught up to the British advance party after...