Word: mine
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...There are many other things [that] help to make the greatness of blank verse, for instance, a fine ear for vowel-sounds and the kicking of the geese out of the boat (i.e., doing away with sibilations) . . . I never put two 'ss' together in any verse of mine...
...most gifted of our young men of letters is Gore Vidal; and I do not say this merely to give a plug to a former schoolmate of mine. He has attained high esteem through his novels (The City and the Pillar), television dramas (Badge of Honor), and movie scripts (The Bachelor Party), to say nothing of short stories and literary criticisms...
...Decided to launch a propaganda campaign against the United Mine Workers' medical and hospitalization plans, marking the complete breakdown of efforts to reconcile A.M.A.-U.M.W. differences. Root of the trouble: A.M.A. insists that doctors must run medical-care plans and patients be free to choose their own physicians, while the U.M.W. maintains that it must have the right to pick its own medicos to treat members, for whom it shelled out $60 million last year...
...corporate fight. Usually he makes his money by buying stock cheap in a sick company, selling out after he has done his bit to make the company and stock strong. "You don't always have to do everything for a fast buck," he says. "I'll take mine slower." Landa has never been slow to get his hands on money. He inherited $200,000 from his mother, spent part of it studying psychology under Sigmund Freud in Vienna, playwriting under George Pierce Baker at Yale, law at George Washington University. In 1926 he joined a top Washington...
...Federal Government because he was a friend of Sherman Adams? Did Sherman Adams seek to secure any favor or benefits for Bernard Goldfine because of his friendship? The answer to both questions is no . . . I have never permitted any personal relationship to affect in any way any actions of mine in matters relating to the conduct of my office. If . . . I have in any way so conducted myself as to cast any semblance of doubt upon such conduct, I can only say that the error was one of judgment and certainly not of intent...