Word: mined
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Which took me back. I embraced Washington passionately for two months this summer; the strip mine veto, Stanley Hathaway, the monthly unemployment figures, the New Hampshire election, you name them, they were all incredibly vital to me. I read incessantly, argued loudly, reasoned occasionally, all hectically. Then I went home, and put my mind out to pasture. But here was my grandmother, who thought I was an expert on these political things because I always agreed with her at the dining room table while all the aunts and uncles were grinning and clucking about how silly an old lady...
...says his interest in the employment situation stems from "the increasing difficulty of placing students of mine in the kind of college or university they'd gone to earlier." and from his involvement in a similar pilot study in New York state. In the course of the pilot study, May found that history Ph.D.'s, because of their strong liberal arts training, were especially in demand for jobs in government and banking. At least two history Ph.D.'s, one of them directly on May's advice, have since successfully sought positions in New York City banks...
...have devoted his life to it, as we didn't see much of him at home. I just thought of the factory as my father's way of life, and I assumed it would be mine some day too. My father always quoted the deathbed scene of his father, whose last words were 'Keep the flag flying...
...screwing music," but Composer Dimitri Tiomkin's score had a windy, rasping sound. "Dimitri, the music doesn't have enough shtup," Selznick said. "It doesn't sound like the way I make love." Tiomkin defended his score. "You love your way and I'll love mine," he said. "To me, that's lovemaking music...
Here are some evaluations of the adviser system: "Mine was a basketball player who never grew up. I can't remember a thing he said...