Word: rasped
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...office surrounded by stuffed pheasants and distinguished service awards (one from the National Limestone Institute). "I don't have any trouble sleeping," he says. "I'm doing what I want to do." He is modishly dressed in wide collar and thick tie, yet talks with the slow rasp of a country preacher, which he almost became. The paradox again. His boyhood heroes are George Norris, Bob La Follette and Peter Norbeck, who worried most about the people, and McGovern is doing no less. "We have lost our individualism, our sense of our own uniqueness. The young are closer...
...World foundered on the crass realities of exploitation. After Raleigh, Novelist V.S. Naipaul writes, in this extraordinary evocative re-creation of the history of his native Trinidad: "The ships from Europe came and went. The plantations grew. The brazilwood, felled by slaves in the New World, was rasped [the bark scraped off] by criminals in the rasp houses of Amsterdam. The New World as medieval adventure ended; it had become a cynical extension of the developing old world, its commercial underside...
Yablonski was no stranger to venom. Reports TIME Correspondent Mark Sullivan: "Joseph A. Yablonski was a rasp-voiced man with bushy eyebrows and a kind of wild glint in his eye. He did not by his presence establish an air of calm and reasonableness. He was a man haunted by many demons. It is not surprising that he died violently, reaching for his gun. He was in and around violence much of his life...