Word: scrap
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Edgar Hoover, urging him to use "maximum available resources" of his agency to investigate and predict riots. Angered at Johnson's refusal to allow wiretapping and electronic bugs against gangsters, Hoover balked. In fact, he proceeded to scrap many of the FBI'S more dubious but productive techniques, such as burglarizing the homes and monitoring the mail of suspected spies and criminals. Stymied by Hoover and realizing that not even the 8,700 agents of the FBI could cope with riots, the Johnson Administration turned to the U.S. Army as a tool of massive retaliation, giving...
...security interests for China's sake. During the last 150 years, the United States has never risked its neck for China. It is hard to forget that until shortly before Japan's attack on the U.S. navy base at Pearl Harbor, the United States continued to supply Japan with scrap iron and oil crucial to its decade-long war effort against China...
...annual cost of some 50-odd million dollars, he makes this promise absolutely meaningless. He apparently has no more respect for his promises than von Bethmann-Hollweg, as Chancellor, had for Germany's treaty obligation not to violate Belgium's neutrality during WWI, calling it "a mere scrap of paper...
...night before his death he had dinner with friends and then returned to his studio to work through the late hours of the night -- the routine he had followed for years. He worked continually, made sketches as naturally as speaking, and finally every scrap he signed, every napkin he doodled on had its value...
...area needing little attention was the metals division, which provides more than half the company's profits and almost a third of its revenues. The keystone of this division is Luria Bros. & Co., the world's largest scrap-metal firm. Ablon, a onetime business instructor at Ohio State who came to Ogden from Luria in 1962, is satisfied with the conglomerate's progress but far from smug about it. Having got Ogden moving again, Ablon dryly remarks: "The most positive thing we can do now is not to blow...