Word: mill
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...there is a war going on, you thought, and everyone around you knew that the war was bad when they remembered it; so you thought, what is a teach-in, a be-in, a mill-in, a laugh-in when people are dying. And you remembered, and got just a little sick at your own smugness and aloofness and cursed yourself for looking at the tight pants when you should have been doing something, but what you wondered and wonder, and the revolutionary refrain from the man in the business suit played upon your mind...
Some resolution is expected this week when Mill's Ways and Means Committee-the determining voice on any tax measure-meets to consider the matter. Angry as they are, most Congressmen now realize, like it or not, that higher taxes are mandatory if the economy and the dollar are to be saved. But like it or not, Lyndon Johnson also will have to bite the bullet and accept cutbacks that will maim some of his proudest programs...
...huge refreshment stand stranded like a useless life raft in the center of the floor. Off to one side, there is what pretends to be both a sidewalk café' and an ice cream parlor. Remnants of an art exhibition are occasionally displayed on the walls. People mill about, others line up at the various entrances. They are generally enthusiastic. The circus has come to the inner city, and the side shows are just great. The success of Cheri 4 and 5 should be congenital...
Ayub did, however, win some handsome consolation prizes. Kosygin agreed to bankroll Pakistan's first steel mill, a $100 million project in Kalabagh with a capacity of up to a million tons a year. He also offered to provide help on a nuclear power plant at Ruppur in East Pakistan, a radio hookup between Pakistan and Russia, and a fishery development. Most of them planned for completion after 1970, these projects should provide a big boost for Pakistan's next five-year plan, which begins that year. The present one, even though slowed down by the war with...
...forewarn the audience of a punch line, quite a bit of Koch's zaniness gets through. At one point. Terrence McNally, as the title character, heroically informs his soldiers, "We have nothing to fear but death." Any play that makes George Washington look like a run-of-the-mill fool...