Word: mined
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...providing evidence on this aspect of the trial, the book is a gold mine. Judge Hoffman's bias has become an accepted national fact; the book, however, still makes startling reading as it shows the many ways Hoffman's prejudice expressed itself through the trial...
...choice of Welfare Cadilac seemed especially peculiar. Written five years ago by Guy Drake, a sort of combination Pa Kettle-Tex Ritter, the song portrays the welfare recipient as an improvident lout battening on the public purse. ("This house that I live in is mine but it's really a shack, but I always manage somehow to drive me a brand-new Cadilac...
...just like roller-derby dropouts, or Russian pole-vaulting types." The uncharacteristic club is quickly replaced by a tickling feather. She adds: "When I make speeches I'm always asked, 'Have you burned your bra yet?' I tell them I took a halfway measure: I scorched mine on the ironing board...
...said, "everywhere I go I have cracks in my ceilings. It's not the landlord's fault. it's mine. Somehow leaky ceilings are part of my life...
...FATHER of a friend of mine is the vice-mayor of the little town I live in outside of San Diego. He sells washing machines, refrigerators and stoves. We were eating dinner one night about five years ago, and I told him that I thought I wanted to be a professor...