Word: wiring
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...Labor Committee noted a number of specific allegations that the FBI did not pass along to the Senate. These included: six mentions of Donovan picked up by wire taps on the telephone of William Masselli, a reputed member of the Genovese crime family in New York; references to Schiavone Construction in the agency's files on the disappearance of former Teamsters President Jimmy Hoffa; and reports from FBI informants that Donovan and Schiavone may have had ties to organized crime through the firm's dealings with the Big J Trucking...
...Night (1958), an austere, shattering account of a boy's first days behind barbed wire, babies were thrown into ovens and God was banished from everywhere but memory: "I've got more faith in Hitler than in anyone else. He's the only one who's kept his promises to the Jewish people." If Wiesel's literary career had ended with Night, he would still have earned an international reputation as a founder of Holocaust literature. Once the novel was published, others dared to speak out: Nelly Sachs' laments were carried...
...fact but the hope of a great horse that stirs people in the rich and romantic industry of Thoroughbred racing. When Sunny's Halo crossed the wire at Churchill Downs last week and won the Kentucky Derby, that was the finish line of the race, but the opening line of the story, the continuing line of a dream. In the weeks before the 109th Derby, when seemingly no two prep races could settle on one three-year-old standout, Sunny's Halo and the rest of his generation were belittled as mediocre. Now he and Desert Wine...
Down to the Wire...
...science is not always the best way to achieve a defined aim. When we need to wire new lighting for our house, we never hire a physicist to perform a complicated array of calculations; he could easily make a mistake and the house would burn down. Instead we call on an electrician who might know nothing about the scientific theory of electricity, but who has learned by custom and experience what sort of wiring works best...