Word: mille
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...leather strap on the children "until the blood came." Twice, before Dick was 13, the Bible was read aloud in family meetings-all the way through. Well Dick learned the old family stories-great-grandfather had owned a plantation and 35 or 40 slaves; grandfather had his cotton mill on Sweetwater Creek burned down and his slaves set free by Sherman's men, and grandmother had to flee from Marietta escorted by the family coachman, a slave named Monday Russell (because he was born on Monday); Old Slave Monday lived on to serve in that carpetbag Georgia state legislature...
...Minas, carried off arms, ammunition and supplies. Then they set two bridges afire on the highway between Bayamo and Manzanillo, and the next day engaged Batista troops at Peladero. In Santiago the funeral turned into a spontaneous general strike, spreading to neighboring towns. The big Oriente Maceo sugar mill was burned to the ground...
...force, which helped attract a new Olin Mathieson aluminum plant. In Espanola. N. Mex., fruitgrowers were helped to build a plant to grade and pack their apples and peaches. In Choctaw County, Okla.. which was losing population in droves, a new cannery, a glove factory and a feed mill were established...
...happy man today," cried Di Candia, and promptly guaranteed a bright future for friendly ex-Banker Rose, who is now driving a truck while awaiting trial next month. Promised Di Candia: "When Bill Rose's troubles are over, I'll offer him half interest in the paper mill-for nothing. I will never forget Bill Rose for what...
...from solid, but he argues that Voliva stood for ''the human freedom to be different." i.e., to be what U.S. tradition calls "individualistic" or nonconformist, what orthodoxy dubs heretical, what psychiatry calls neurotic, what some men in the street call plain cracked. Author Wallace agrees with Mill that "eccentricity has always abounded when and where strength of character has abounded," and then with tender gaiety proceeds to profile a handful of the most eccentric eccentrics...