Word: pined
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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THIRTY years later, the blurb in the Pine Bluff, Ark., high school yearbook under the picture of the pretty blonde remains apt. Letting go after the march on Washington, Martha Mitchell told a television interviewer: "As my husband has said many times, some of the liberals in this country, he'd like to take them and change them for Russian Communists." Since Martha Mitchell's husband is the Attorney General of the U.S., the remark caused a certain furor. John Mitchell, at a press conference, set the record straight: "If you will transpose the word 'liberal...
Born and raised in Pine Bluff, Martha graduated from the University of Miami and taught school in Mobile, Ala. She quit teaching after only one year because, she says, "I despised it." During World War II, she married Clyde Jennings, but the marriage ended in divorce, as did Mitchell's first marriage. Martha and John met on a weekend in New York in the early '50s and were married several months later. While Mitchell was a $250,000-a-year Manhattan attorney, they lived in Rye, N.Y. Now they are ensconced in a $140,000 duplex in Washington...
...artists found their powers of concentration affected and experienced frustration in arresting the dream images that rapidly slide in from the subconscious. "I really can't draw any more," Bernhard Jager complained. "Everything begins to move on this picture. The ears of a wolf turn into a burning pine forest." Artist Gerhard Hoehme observed: "The paper in front of me turned into a room in which I became lost." Michael Richard Coudenhove-Kalergi watched his precise draftsmanship disintegrate into chaos...
...Capitol marshals took the placards bearing the dead men's names and stuffed them into rough pine caskets. They took the candles we had carried so they could be used again...
There they dropped the placards into pine wood caskets behind the Grant Monument. Five drummers beat a dirge rhythm as the marchers filed...