Word: mined
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...better anyway. At the time I left Los Angeles, it already seemed too late for a phased withdrawal. The smog was like Mace; but then the air, apart from radioisotopes, must be better anywhere else now, even in a coal mine. A major earthquake was predicted, too, not merely by seismologists but by the religious protection rackets, which were transferring east to pray out the millennium and to await the second option of chiliasm there . . . At about that time, as well, the American Legion opened its campaign against my San Diego neighbor Professor Marcuse, an action I read...
...that my representatives. both in the House and the Senate. know how improper our policies are Congressman Ogden Reid is the sponsor of anti-war legislation in the House, and almost everyone knows that Senators Goodell and Javits are far from hawks. Even the Congressman in the district bordering mine-Richard Ottinger-is a dove. It was hard for me to believe that I could come from such a heavily-Republican area and still be this happy about my representatives. So the extent of my lobbying efforts with these men was a pep-talk note which I left in Reid...
...GATES Commission was very careful ??mine all the present objections to an all-volunteer army. One criticism is that an all-volunteer military would consist largely of the poor and the black the commission pointed out that even at present lattes of pay, these groups are already motivated to enlist in disproportionate numbers and that an army paying salaries comparable to those in civilian life would, in fact, attract somewhat more well-to-individuals who have less trouble now getting job in the civilian market. The commission estimated that the percentage of blacks in an all-volunteer army, although greater...
...know I too shall cease and be as when I was not yet . . . Often now my murmur falters and dies and I weep for happiness as I go along and for love of this old earth that has carried me so long and whose uncomplainingness will soon be mine...
...Cooper, the fat guy who sings "Rock and Roil Is Here To Stay," also talked frankly about white socks. "I definitely like mine with stripes." he said...