Word: railings
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Spite-shell and round-shot, grape and canister, Up they climbed without rail or banister.... which sounds like a Thurber parody of bad Whittier...
...rights to their sacred Black Hills: one mine alone yielded more than $500 million in gold. Of the estimated 3,700,000 buffalo killed from 1872 through 1874, only 150,000 were killed by Indians. The rest were slaughtered by white hunters for skins and for meat to feed rail workers, or by "sportsmen" who left the carcasses to rot. The destruction of the buffalo broke the cultural, ecological and spiritual links in the chain of Indian existence. This was not without its uses. "Let them kill, skin and se'l until the buffalo is exterminated." said General Philip...
...shutdown of the Penn Central, the nation's largest railroad. A major part of the bailout money will go to pay its share of the inflationary 13½% wage increase that Congress ordered for all U.S. railroad workers as part of last month's law prohibiting a rail strike until March 1. Congress and the Administration also created a quasi-governmental body, the National Railroad Passenger Corp., to take over intercity passenger trains, starting May 1. It will relieve private lines of the $200 million annual loss they suffer from passenger service they would prefer not to supply...
More positively, the Congress extended voting rights in national elections to 18-year-olds, instituted a lottery system for the draft, passed a comprehensive reform of the Post Office and launched programs to provide better rail passenger service, check air pollution from automobiles and combat water pollution. It gave the Federal Government new powers to enforce safety standards in industry and in coal mines. But it also demonstrated, all too dramatically, just how badly its own procedures need to be modernized...
...beat this man viciously. One of them grabbed a ship's phone cord and was going to wrap it around the defector's neck when the phone talker pulled the cord away. While this happened, another Russian was beating the defector's head against the rail of the ladder...