Word: mined
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Historians will surely mine the Eden memoirs for their occasional insights: Harry Hopkins' confiding in July 1941, five months before Pearl Harbor, that the U.S. was already committed to joining the war; Eden's notes on the summit conferences at Yalta, Moscow and Teheran, his off-guard glimpses of world leaders playing at the game of war: "The Prime Minister's valet came into my bedroom and said: 'The Prime Minister's compliments, and the German armies have invaded Russia.' Thereupon he presented me with a large cigar on a silver salver...
...different war from the one fought around Stanleyville, where the Simbas were mostly armed with sharpened sticks, pangas and bows and arrows. In the first skirmish, a white mercenary was killed as crossfire raked the lead patrol. Hours later, another died when he stepped on a land mine...
Scholars personally involved in the Institute will have one questionable advantage: they will be able to tap a mine of source material that would otherwise not be available in Cambridge. Richard E. Neustadt, professor of Government and the Institute's director, uses the example of Lawrence O'Brien, who has been responsible for executive-congressional relations under Presidents Kennedy and Johnson. Nothing on the subject has been written down, but the changes have been vast; only O'Brien can explain them. To bring men like him to the Institute would make it an attractive place for scholars, Neustadt argues...
...wandering brought depressing sights. "The newly-recruited 'mine boys' came, scores of men from all over Africa. They walked through town with blankets on their shoulders and loaves of bread under their armpits, to be housed in the hostels of the gold mines. They looked like prisoners to me. I resented them because I felt a responsibility towards them and I was doing nothing about it. They spoiled my image of Johannesburg as the throbbing giant which threw up smooth gangsters, brave politicians and intellectuals who challenged white authority...
...your issue of March 12 you reproduced a large bronze sculpture of mine, most handsomely in color, over the caption Evolution of the Minotaur. However, in evolving the bull-headed monster from Greek legend, I did not conceive him to have changed his sex. The work you reproduced is another, entirely different, and female figure, called Oracle...