Word: carting
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...operations. Safety measures which smaller mines cannot afford have taken much of the danger out of mining, and huge machines eliminate the physical exhaustion. In a typical truck mine a man crawls into a low tunnel supported by timbers, blasts his coal with dynamite, and shovels it out onto carts by hand. There is always the danger of heavy chunks of shale falling on a man from the mine ceiling. The work is tough, grimy, and hazardous. At Inland's mine the roof is supported by long bolts, and the coal is blasted with compressed air. A 35 foot long...
...Brecht set his drama against the backdrop of the 17th century Thirty Years War between Protestants and Catholics. In her cagey peasant way, Mother Courage (Anne Bancroft) is a petty war profiteer peddling brandy, belts and other boodle to the troops. Her only religion is her hand-drawn canteen cart and her three children. But just as Mother Courage is a coward, her children ironically symbolize the degradation and defeat of virtue in the world...
Alone, Mother Courage harnesses herself to the canteen cart and arduously, tortuously circles the stage. Brecht would say that she is determined to keep "getting her cut," come what may, but audiences are perversely affected by the scene and their blurred gaze tells them that Brecht wrote into it some quintessential gritty gallantry...
Jealous Title. Son of a moderately well-to-do Indianapolis grocer, Dillinger lost his mother when he was three, was brought up by his father (who disciplined him by chaining him to a delivery cart) and by a stepmother he detested. At 21 he was convicted of his first attempt at armed robbery and sent off to serve his only long stretch in prison-nine years in various Indiana prisons. Then he was paroled. In the next 13 months, he built the legend that still clings to his name...
...houses sited throughout the property to provide maximum privacy and view. Built for an average $50,000, each provides at least one bedroom, plus living room-dining room, bath-dressing room, and fully equipped kitchen. Each is staffed by a butler and maid, and has its own electric cart for transportation. There is no such thing as an extra charge; guests may demand a private plane or a Rolls-Royce for a drive around the island, order caviar or Dom Perignon any time they want-all is included in the rate: a cool $2,000 for two people...