Word: mill
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Dates: during 1970-1970
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...crisp, clear, early autumn morning last week, LeTendre began a typical 16-hour campaign day-typical for him and for the 137 other Republicans and Democrats competing for marginal seats. Young (33), articulate, conservative and a former president of the National Jaycees, LeTendre ventured into a feed mill, roadside restaurant, bakery and hardware store. His opponent was "spending crazy," LeTendre charged. Agreeing with a disgruntled early morning beer drinker that property tax revenues should not be used for welfare, the candidate argued that Nixon's proposal to share federal revenues with the states would ease the local tax burden...
...misleading impression of a deepening slump. In early 1971, Okun adds, catch-up production by G.M. will paint an equally deceptive "rosy glow" on the economy. David Grove believes that this false picture will be heightened by steel users, who will be buying heavily to hedge against a possible mill strike in August...
Were I true to my roots I'd now be a laborer in a paper or textile mill, married and the father of two children, a veteran of action in Vietnam, and a reasonably brainwashed communicant in a Roman Catholic, predominantly Irish parish. Instead, I am a lazy good-for-nothing, probably a Communist dupe, and live on a communal farm, way into the backwoods of Vermont. What went wrong...
Real escape can only be found by getting in the car and driving away. They finally decide to go to Chicago ("Chi"), where Gunner has a vague offer to work for an ad-agency. "They came roaring into Chi through a night torched by the steel-mill fires, eerie and hellish," writes Wakefield. They reach a curve in the road and Sonny fumbles, realizing it is "too late, too late even to put on the brake." They head straight into a cement abutment and then smash...
Deciding to call himself the Fox after the county's Fox River, he struck first at a major soap company that was pouring pollutants into a tributary called Mill Creek. The Fox dumped a truckload of rocks, straw and logs into the factory's sewage outlet to block it, then repeated his imaginative vandalism twice in ensuing weeks. The last time he was nearly captured by company security guards who had staked out the area...