Word: coal
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...CUMBERLAND, MD.: Lyndon and Daughter Lynda Bird, 20, headed for the office of the Maryland Department of Employment Security to visit with people who were lined up looking for work. There, Johnson spotted Joe Click, 49, a one-legged coal miner who has been unemployed for 13 months, rushed over to him and said: "We're here because we care...
...from an antique museum. When the government recently began issuing drivers' licenses, many battered Buicks and monstrous Mercedes of prewar vintage returned to the streets after years of exile in garages. Czechoslovakia's railroads, once among the best in Central Europe, today are the worst, and their coal-burning engines add to the gritty smog that cloaks the capital. In Prague's restaurants and bars, Scotch and French cognac sell for $2.50 an ounce. Tipping is simple: all waiters want is a few American cigarettes...
...education department have strengthened dozens of local public schools by curriculum improvements and new teaching aids. University scientists have tackled such regional problems as water pollution, crop diversification and transportation. Even the S.I.U. symphony is a regional enterprise; half the members are students, and the other half are jobless coal miners and other amateurs...
...negotiators' imagination, and the strategy worked. The unions were afraid that Johnson would ask Congress for a compulsory arbitration act, as Kennedy did last summer. The railroads feared seizure, for one thing. They badly want a bill pending in the House to improve their competitive position in hauling coal and grain, and Johnson's support could improve the measure's prospects. Finally, the railroads have pressing tax problems, including the Internal Revenue Service's refusal to allow some $25 million in depreciation credits for tunnels and grading along tracks. J. E. ("Doc") Wolfe, the railroads...
Getting ready for the try, Olivier boomed and bellowed at the rehearsal hall's rafters until he had amplified his "rib reserve." He soaked himself in potassium permanganate, but that failed to darken him sufficiently, so he settled in the end for coal-black grease paint. He tightened the spring in his stride, explaining, "Othello should walk like a soft black panther." He practiced the curiously accented, oddly stressed speech that evoked the way some Jamaicans and Africans gush English, managing thereby to convey the way the Moor spoke Italian...