Word: mined
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...much of her trip to Rome for the 1960 Olympics carrying the baggage of male athletes. "It was my first time out of the country," she says, "and I was in shock. I had never seen Westerners before, or Negroes or television or Coca-Cola or eyes different from mine." Everything was so new and strange, in fact, that the prospect of running against Caucasian girls embarrassed her. She finished last in her qualifying heat in the 80-meter hurdles...
Accurate Jumps. The use of many voices also provides great breadth. Sally Rand gives some flavor of the times, and herself, when she notes: "Friends of mine who had been to Harvard, Yale and Princeton jumped out of windows. With accuracy." The insularity of the rich sometimes speaks in the person of a psychiatrist. The most wonderful kind of servants could be had for a pittance, he recalls. "That's when people were peddling apples and breadlines were forming. But on the whole, don't forget, the highest unemployment was less than 20%." A Chicago M.D. with many...
JUST before I went to see Seneca's Oedipus last night, while I was having dinner, I heard about a fire that broke out early yesterday morning in the home of some friends of mine. Everybody made it out safely except for the cat, Porky, who was that rare animal which makes its way through the world with both saintly charity and sparkling good humor. We were very sad, all of us looking down at our plates. It was a small tragedy, perhaps an inversion of the Aristotelian "larger than life" mode, but we were exalted just the same. Until...
...major rationale for more logging in national forests is that the bulk of the Government's high-yield timber areas are located in sections of Alaska, California, the Northwest and parts of the South "not uniquely valuable for other uses." The commission would also amend the General Mining Law of 1872 galled "scandalous" by some conservationists), which allows prospectors to mine whatever minerals they find on public lands, but the change would merely shift claim filing from local to federal officials. No tough conservation controls are contemplated...
...period of his rapid rise he told a friend of mine in Appleton that he had first glimpsed the secret of political success by reading Mein Kampf. Hitler's technique, he said, rested on the skillful use of the big lie. Tell a whopper and keep on repeating it. In time people will come to believe it. Joseph McCarthy's big whopper was that the communists had taken over the State Department. Hitler's big lie had been that the Jews had almost destroyed Germany...