Word: camped
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Mines. Sam Huff knows the value of a dollar. He was born in 1934 in a West Virginia mining camp called Edna Gas that was caught tight in the squeeze of the Depression. Sam and his five brothers and sisters spent their early years in one of a row of identical five-room company houses. Sam's father worked as little as one day a week in the mines, often had to queue up for free flour. The specter of the mines and a sooty lifetime behind a No. 3 shovel hung over all the boys in the coal...
...have been playing charades with ourselves since Camp David," he said, scoffing at the apparent need for an atmosphere of progress...
...than any other man. The fact that he is no friend of the other G.O.P. candidate on the horizon. New York's Governor Nelson Rockefeller (Hall clearly wanted the Republican gubernatorial nomination that went to Rocky last year), has put Hall even more solidly in Nixon's camp...
...Texas, where his office was, Anderson headed fund-raising drives, got each drive off to a fast start by contributing a chunk of Waggoner funds. With Anderson's help, Vernon got a $1,000,000 Methodist church, a municipal auditorium, a recreation hall for teenagers, a Boy Scout camp...
Pearls Proprietary expects plenty of competition from other pearlers who know a good thing when they see one. At least five more syndicates have set up camp along the coast. But even when they get into production, there is no guarantee that they will be as successful as Pearls Proprietary, which refuses to divulge exactly how it makes its pearls...