Word: roundup
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Montana character: a cussed inconsistency that some people call rugged individualism. It is a trait bestowed by birthright ("You're not a Montanan until you've weathered 40 winters," the saying goes) and steeped in frontier nostalgia. Montanans are closet cowboys in haunting pursuit of the roundup, even while struggling with realities. Democrats vote Republican, Republicans vote Democrat. The naive are suspicious, the shrewd trusting. Together they brew 100-proof populism and partake of it as effortlessly as they drink their bourbon...
...Your otherwise excellent roundup on the Supreme Court nominations ignored the historic fact that no one can predict the ideological behavior of a Justice. Few of them have followed the party line of the nominating Administration, and those that have, have tended to lack influence in the court...
...women stole into the federal offices in the courthouse. They were determined to steal or destroy FBI documents and federal draft records. Instead, they stepped into a well-laid trap. Three floors below the Government offices, a team of FBI agents awaited their furtive entrance. By the time the roundup was completed, the agents had nabbed the eight intruders as well as 20 of their confederates who had been assigned various sentinel and communications tasks outside the court house. All were indicted on charges of conspiracy to loot federal offices in Camden. Among those apprehended were two Roman Catholic priests...
...June, noted that he had been keeping the courthouse under surveillance, and started keeping an eye on him. Their observations also revealed that Grady had set up his command post in the home of Dr. William Anderson, a Camden osteopath who surrendered to the FBI the day after the roundup...
Northern Ireland's Catholics were furious. "There is one issue on which virtually every Catholic, moderate and extremist, antipartition and pro-partition, is united," said a Catholic lawyer in Belfast, "and that is an almost psychopathic revulsion toward internment." In its roundup, however, the army failed to snare many key activists. Some arrests were based on ten-year-old dossiers. Besides, as one I.R.A. leader told TIME Correspondents Curtis Prendergast and John Shaw, many men went into hiding or crossed into the Irish Republic after learning that jail cells in Belfast were being cleared to make room for detainees...