Word: mined
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Master Stewart did not want the issue to die so quickly in the meeting. He tried very hard, but when it was over he said in a discouraged way, "I feel very strongly that the whole philosophy of my intelligent and able colleagues is very different from mine on this issue...
...Renoir, a protagonist moves through episodic scenes, his actions steadily becoming a means of intense personal expression. In climactic scenes, characters realize the nature of their commitment to life and are able to voice it: a joyous fusion of purpose and articulation. At the end of This Land Is Mine (1943), the schoolmaster (Charles Laughton) overcomes his cowardice, refuses to collaborate with the Nazis that have occupied his country, and expresses his conviction in a long speech to the townspeople. As he speaks, the light from the window gives him a presence he had lacked before; we understand that Renoir...
...that Haiphong has appealed to its citizens to speed up their evacuation; it plans to leave behind only 150,000 of its 350,000 inhabitants. That is enough to man essential industries, operate aircraft guns and keep the big docks in Haiphong harbor going. If the U.S. decides to mine Haiphong harbor, the dock workers will be able to go to the country too. Few ships are likely to knowingly run any such blockade...
...dependents last week, Arab extremists were threatening harm to their women and children. Those threats so far were just that, but elsewhere a total of 20 Arabs was killed during the week, seven of them children whose school bus blew up when it rolled over an anti-tank mine planted in the road. Several British soldiers were among nearly 100 persons who have been killed so far this year in Aden...
...hope," said the guest of honor, "that you all will have marriages as successful as mine and you all will live as long as I have." The 450 guests at the reception in Columbia, S.C., would all have to be pretty optimistic to hope for both. Former Secretary of State James F. Byrnes had a double holiday with his wife, Maude, celebrating his 88th birthday and their 61st wedding anniversary...