Word: mined
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Mildred, I think you'd be interested in meeting some friends of mine...
...second call was the same thing. But it gave me another look at my wife. She and Mildred, my secretary, remind me or each other, despite their difference in age. So I guess the sex drive, mine that is, is waning...
...walked into the office and Mildred was typing and my wife we listening. The new paintings jumped off the wall at me because my wife was there. I was gone longer than I had expected because I met the son of a friend of mine. The boy had just returned from the war, and I asked him to have a drink with me. One would expect he wouldn't want to had been in combat. One would expect he wouldn't want to talk about it, so I told myself, before asking him, that I wouldn't bring...
Huong was unharmed and returned to his office after lunch for a normal afternoon's work. But it had been a close call. The cyclo contained a Claymore mine and two pounds of plastique. The combination failed to ignite, and despite all the shooting, no one was injured. The attacker, still wearing the Ranger uniform, and a civilian were arrested and later interrogated by Huong's personal security...
...their worst, they specialize in the delights of "carom-fighting" (jabbing at a spouse by mocking his religion or his child by a former marriage), "hit and run" (saying "You made me lose my appetite" in the middle of dinner), and "psychoanalysis" ("Your childhood was more pathogenic than mine, you poor thing!"). Though less neurotic, "round-robin" fighters share a too pessimistic view that they cannot change either themselves or their relationship. Insensitive to possible compromises, they are trapped in the stalemate of "God, how many times have we been through all this before?" and the tune-out of "Here...