Word: tilled
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...ooper ki admani (income from above). Every Oriental language has its own phrase for corruption-and in every tongue the words are unpleasantly familiar. All around the rim of mainland China, many Asian nations are making notable progress, but the greatest obstacle remains the furtive hand in the till, the kickback artist, the bagman, the specialist in "squeeze." Philippines President Ferdinand Marcos, who has more than his share of corruption to bog him down at home, is convinced that "we must change a whole way of life. We must do it or fail to survive...
...Elizabeth Keckley (Nancy McDaniel), the local White House witch accuse Lincoln of "playing with words." And Old Abe's bastard Negro son-valet interrupts Lincoln's speeches for definitions. Lincoln's two secretaries who will write histories talk about history. Characters repeat words for the sake of Meaning. "Till the day I die," says Abe. "The day you die?" say they. "The very day'" says Abe. O ominous, O morbid...
...Half a century had passed since John Edgar Hoover first reported for work at the Justice Department as a $1,200-a-year clerk. Now 72, and the only chief the FBI has ever had, Hoover marked the anniversary in characteristic fashion-working at his desk from 9 a.m. till past 6 p.m., and breaking only for a quiet lunch at the White House with L.B.J. and Attorney General Ramsey Clark...
McNulty's is a dingy neighborhood bar in an old part of the city. It attracts mostly old men from the neighborhood who come in around non stay till five, come back at seven and stay till closing. The old TV bought years ago to encourage business after a new highway isolated the place from traffic, is never turned on. Once in a while a stranger will come, attracted by the pasteboard sign hanging in the window: "McNulty's--Next to the railroad potato yards, come in and meet the real spuds." The real spuds always have something...
Three be the things I shall have till I die: Laughter and hope and a sock...