Word: mined
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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While McCormack acknowledged knowing Voloshen, he denied that the dapper wheeler-dealer used the Speaker's suite as his headquarters: "He's a friend of mine, but he's not in my office much." Reporter Smith's investigation indicated otherwise. On Sept. 25, Smith asked for Voloshen in the Speaker's office. An aide said: "We haven't seen Mr. Voloshen today, but he may come in." The assistant also furnished the telephone number and address of the attorney's Manhattan office. Last year, in an interview with the Washington Post, Sweig called...
...this point in the argument, I will make a concession to a friend of mine who is an "organizer." Up until now I have said that terrorism against capitalism is always justified. I believe that. My friend, however, argues that I should wait to blow things up until people have at least some awareness of how bad they...
...with their industrial plants largely intact, but then came the Communist coup of 1948. Prague adopted the Soviet economic system, and the Soviets, in turn, drained Czechoslovakia, buying its production at dictated prices. One notable example is uranium. Czechoslovakia had the world's first producing uranium mine, and it supplied the pitchblende from which Mme. Curie isolated radium. During the 1950s, Russia bought most of Czechoslovakia's uranium for the cost of production, which was set artificially low because the mines were manned largely by unpaid political prisoners and located on state-owned land...
Teacher and former student became acquainted, and "Maureen" confided the story of the "Wendells." "Their lives pressed upon mine eerily," says Miss Gates, "so that I began to dream about them instead of about myself, dreaming and redreaming their lives. Because their world was so remote from me, it entered me with tremendous power, and in a sense the novel wrote itself...
...play, the symbols in the set, in the gestures, and in the speeches ("The price hasn't changed.") cries out to be noticed. The play did not allow me to become involved in the lives of the characters and to follow their actions as though they were mine. Instead, I was an observer, looking at a situation in which I had no part. I was the analyst sitting behind a two-way mirror, watching and interpreting the actions of group therapy participants. Miller conveyed his message, but bridled its effect. He fired a pistol and I saw a flag...