Word: mined
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...years made good over and over again. Captain of the high school football team in Port Huron and an Eagle Scout, Swainson went on to serve with distinction in the 95th Infantry Division during World War II, losing both legs just below the knees in a mine explosion. He won election to the Michigan state senate in 1954 and then served two-year terms in succession as the State's Lieutenant Governor and Governor. After his defeat by George Romney, Swainson served as a circuit court judge before being elevated to an eight-year term on the state supreme...
...Arab states have proved a profitable mine for the Kremlin, they have also been costly in unexpected ways. One is the military equipment provided on a longterm, low-interest basis: Egypt lost as much as $1 billion in Soviet materiel in the Six-Day War; Syria's armor and air corps were so shattered by the 1973 war that the Russians had to send Damascus $2 billion more...
...demonstrators chanted "Harvard out of Mission Hill" and "Build a power plant in your own yard, not mine," and marched peacefully in front of Longwood Quadrangle, where the graduation ceremonies took place...
...must be mine or die upon the rack, if I want you, Keats' cry rings through the ages. Why should Jaromil be jealous? The redhead girl now belongs to him more than ever. Her fate was his creation. It was his eye watching her as she urinated into the pail; it was his hand touching her when a guard treated her roughly. She was his victim, his creation; she was his, his, totally...
...displeasure with the Israelis or probe his contention that Congress is largely to blame for South Viet Nam's fall. At one point, when Kissinger rephrased-and defanged-a Walters query about the validity of the domino theory, she cooed, "I like your questions much better than mine. They are clearer...