Word: mined
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...would "probably find $1,000 or $2,000 in Christmas and birthday cards, some of it from people you never even heard of." And regarding money that he deemed political contributions, he denied converting it to his personal use. Said Stratton: "I wouldn't say it would be mine in the sense that I could use it for my personal benefit. I could use it for promotion or to enhance my political career...
...support of the guerrillas. "What is still missing is any indication-any indication from anyone-that Hanoi is prepared or willing or ready to stop doing what it is doing against its neighbors," said Lyndon Johnson at his Rose Garden press conference. Added the President: "A great friend of mine who had great responsibilities for a long period of military and executive life in our Government"-Dwight Eisenhower, perhaps?-"said to me the other day, 'When I see the suggestions about negotiations, I wonder if folks don't recognize that there must be someone to negotiate with...
...history of our situation is so much more complex than the "goddamn-white-man" outlook would allow. The Black Muslim talk about "the blue-eyed devil who enslaved us" is really just so much nonsense. Africans, after all, willfully sold their kith and kin, your ancestors and mine, into slavery to the New World. What is more, the African chiefs and middle-men who participated in the slave trade were aware that thousands on each slave ship would die like dogs of diseases before reaching their destination in Brazil, Guiana, West Indies, or the American South. This...
...seen buddies a mine killed," he repeated. He still held the paratrooper's medal in his hand. "Guys I'd give my right arm for. I been shot at, you know...
...book ends as the Englishman learns of Zorba's death. In the film both of them rediscover life. Their mine has failed, and their projects for hauling down wood ended in disaster. The women they have made love to are dead. The two men join hands and dance...