Word: mines
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...mild-mannered enough to bring home to Mother. His apartment on Sparks St. is not arty, just a little crowded. Books and records are stacked around the room and on the mantelpiece stands bric-a-brac suggestive of his work: a rubber "dead hand" (I Hold Your Hand in Mine), a skeleton, a model of the "World Tree" in which he has stuck a dustmop, and a flowery piece of crockery labeled "Opium" (The Old Dope Peddler). He has a much pleasanter voice than his record would suggest...
...Mine Enemy Grows Older, King...
...economic chaos that has soaked up $129 million in U.S. grants in six years without results went on. A year ago the International Monetary Fund told Siles that it would end its support if he did not close government-subsidized tin-mine commissaries where the coddled, politically powerful miners were buying meat, rice and other staples at less than cost-a typical rat hole for foreign funds. A few weeks ago the U.S., which sends Bolivia a bail-out allowance of $500,000 every fortnight, backed up the I.M.F. by demanding an end to commissary subsidies. Thus pressured, Siles announced...
Psychiatrist William B. Terhune, 65, who started the foundation 25 years ago, insists on calling his plant a "unit"-he is equally opposed to such "emotionally charged'' words as sanatorium, hospital and institution. Two miles out of New Canaan, its 50 acres bisected by the Silver Mine River, it looks like any New England resort hotel. It has no barred windows or guards, no locked doors for its capacity (usually filled) of 60 patients. Among its fulltime staff of 75, the seven doctors and four registered nurses never wear white coats. The aim: gracious country living without country...
...Kanne misses the hothouse bloom of Gwendolyn, who exists in and through Society like an elegant bacterium in its nutrient broth. (In the midst of an ineffably decorous cat-fight, Gwendolyn accepts a cup of tea from her rival with the aside, "Detestable girl! But I require tea!") (italics mine...