Word: mined
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...that time, the U.S. produced no nickel at all; the entire supply was imported, largely from Canada. But Hanna owned an idle nickel mine in Oregon, and the Truman Administration began negotiating with the company to open the mine for production. On Jan. 16, 1953, just four days before the Eisenhower Administration took over, the Government and the Hanna Co. signed their contracts...
...general is just as good or just as bad as the troops under his command make him. Mine were great! Something of the luster of this citation glows on each one's shoulders." During his brief visit to Washington, MacArthur also stopped off at the White House for a private talk with President Kennedy. When he emerged, MacArthur told newsmen: "The President and I discussed the world situation and reminisced about our old comradeship in the Pacific war." Someone wanted to know if he was optimistic or pessimistic about world affairs. "I am completely optimistic," the general replied. "Anybody...
...downtown San Diego, a parking-lot operator who last year was regularly netting $800 a month declared last week: "Hell, business is so dead I won't take home more than $130 this month. Friend of mine offered me a deal, and I think I'm going to fold this thing up and go in with him." The friend's deal: an outfit to handle merchandise from San Diego firms that go bankrupt...
...will lift up mine eyes unto the pills. Nembutal yellow as buttercups, azure amytal and the purple benzedrine, slum-berol, and hey, ho, the valleyol. Life pills to keep you sterile and death pills for inducing permanent sleep and an open verdict." The dangers of drugs were everywhere in the headlines, and Malcolm Muggeridge, 59, the gadfly columnist of Britain's New Statesman, was not the man to let opportunity sleep. Continued Muggeridge, in a biting psalm for the pill takers of our time: "A pill a day keeps the druggist in pay. Pills for slimming, pills for fattening...
...valley of the Rhine to the hinterlands of the Zambezi, the common indignities, predictably enough, cluster upon them like cattle flies. But when she says, "I know a lot of men who aren't half the man you are, even though their skin is the same color as mine"; and when he feels "inferior to white women only as long as they hid underneath their dresses"; it is clear that the level of communication will be mainly horizontal. Love is a skin game to The Lonely Conqueror, and the game is only skin deep...