Word: appalachia
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...garbage and intoned: "This is my bag." Another student, dressed as Cleaveland, rowed up, declared: "This place is too dirty to build a colony," and double-timed back down the river to the almost equally scabrous Lake Erie. In Letcher County, Ky., part of the most ravaged section of Appalachia, 1,200 students buried a trash-filled casket. A young Denver group called CARP (Citizens Concerned About Radiation Pollution) gave the Colorado Environmental Rapist of the Year Award to the Atomic Energy Commission...
...used to be that men mined coal with picks and shovels-half a million men. But after World War II, when mechanization came to the mines. machines began replacing the men. Coalmine employment in Appalachia dropped from 475,000 in 1950 to 119,000 last year-but now, according to the Burean of Mines, the decline has about dropped, and over the next several years the number of men working in the mines will increase again. Right now there are 96.00 men working underground, producing the bulk of the 50,000.000 tons of coal produced annually in the United States...
...subculture blacks in particular have resisted total Westernization. Black dialect-if you want to call it that-is probably more subtle and sophisticated than standard white English." In standard English, she says, "there are only two present tenses-I work, I am working. In English as spoken in white Appalachia, there are three -I work, I am working, I a' working. In black Appalachian dialect, there are five-I work, I am working, I be working, I a' working, I be a' working-and each has a different shade of meaning...
...Cincinnati, now retired) who felt that things were moving too fast. The Glenmarys' mother superior, now Miss Catherine Rumschlag, proposed that the liberal majority of sisters go secular. Today the group functions as a service organization called FOCUS, and does teaching and social work in three regional centers throughout Appalachia...
...reaches of Puget Sound are burdened with pulp-mill discharges. Mining companies spew so many wastes over tiny East Helena, Mont. (pop. 1,490) that the lettuce there contains 120 times the maximum concentrations of lead allowed in food for interstate shipment. Tourists are beginning to leave Appalachia nowadays; poisonous acid from strip mines has seeped into the water table...