Word: weatherized
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...whom he's loved for five years, with Tom McGuane for a brother-in-law and what all. Son of a Son will do no damage to his credit rating--it's a sure AM smash, and you're gonna hear it wafting from the dorm windows come warm weather...
...insists, the Party failed. Certainly Communists did not mobilize masses of workers or save the migrants. In retrospect, some of the Communists now note that they failed to see America through American eyes and were thus unable to weather Stalinism or McCarthyism. But Gornick downplays the social and political context of these failures, although the best sections of the interviews address precisely these issues. She dwells instead on the Party's loss of humanity. Marriages suffered, friendships were severed and psyches were bruised. Communists, she tells us sadly, did bad things to one another...
...Warmer weather and increased production from non-U.M.W. mines had undercut the strike's effectiveness. Moreover, the financial burden of the walkout was finally grinding down the stubborn miners and their families. "I'm hurtin'," confessed Miner Johnny Elkins, 25, of Hernshaw, W. Va., who voted against the last contract offer. To make ends meet, he had been cutting and selling firewood for $35 a truckload. "Now spring's coming," said Elkins, "and people ain't needing firewood." So he traded in his chain saw for a secondhand trail bike and voted...
...characters, our viewpoints and our personal traits. There was the friction you get between men who lack a 'chemical affinity.' " Today he puts his relationship with Begin a little differently. He is simply trying to help Begin "navigate the ship of state in rather stormy weather...
...rate, the rusty but aggressive Crimson overcame the obnoxious Hopkins cannon and the rainy weather to bring the score to 6-2 midway through the third period, when they found themselves with a man up, but a Bluejay fast-break goal shattered any upset hopes. The final count was 11-4, with Mike Faught (2), Steve Martin, and Mike Ward providing the Crimson goals...