Word: wente
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...land. Shortly afterward, the tribe announced that it would enforce its own regulations on anyone, Indian or white, hunting or fishing on the reservation. After threats of violence between whites and Indians, Minnesota authorities secured a temporary injunction restraining the Chippewas from regulating white activities. But the state went along with the tribe's opening move: shortening the deer-hunting season on the reservation to three days in early November. In most of the surrounding area, the season lasted nine days...
...counts some of New York's most prominent politicians among his friends. But because of his occupational affiliation with the city's notoriously corrupt waterfront and his 1957 marriage to the niece of Mobster Albert Anastasia, police considered Scotto to be a criminal. In 1969, the FBI went so far as to identify him as a capodecina, or lieutenant, in the Mafia family of Carlo Gambino, an allegation that the union leader vehemently denied...
...with foreign observers at the scene the police confiscated about 500 copies of the trial transcript and arrested three would-be buyers and a man who was helping sell copies of the underground journal called April Fifth Forum that had published the transcript. When a Forum editor, Liu Qing, went to the police station to inquire after the imprisoned men, he too was arrested...
...trial spelled their downfall. After obtaining a tape recording of the 5½-hour proceedings, they first posted a transcript on democracy wall where it was read by thousands of people during the next three weeks. This limited access to the transcript was tolerated. But when it went on sale at 17? a copy the authorities evidently felt that they could not risk having it circulate throughout China. Wei, who had conducted his own defense at his trial, charged that China had scarcely changed since the ouster of the Gang of Four, led by Mao's widow Jiang Qing...
...Intent on pursuing a career as a concert pianist, Tiomkin left Russia after the 1917 Revolution, made his Paris concert debut in 1924 and two years later performed for the first time in the U.S. Caught in the rush of talent to Hollywood in the early '30s, he went on to write more than 160 film scores, including those for the original Lost Horizon, Giant, The Guns of Navarone and 55 Days at Peking. Accepting his Oscar in 1955 for his score for The High and the Mighty, Tiomkin, good-humored and self-effacing, won the hearts...