Word: coaling
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Republican Arthur James (1939-43) is 79, still goes every day to his Wilkes-Barre law office. James, a tiny (5 ft. 5 in., 135 lbs.) former coal-mine breaker's boy, once said he "wouldn't cross Broad Street to become Governor." Now he remembers: "The Democrats were in control down in Washington. What a bunch they were . . . When I was inaugurated, there were 1,000,000 unemployed in this state. We had a $90 million deficit. The Democrats knew I wanted to balance the budget. So what do you suppose they did? Every time...
...Oxford's New College, did not have his smoldering sense of social justice fully kindled until the general strike of 1926. To an aunt who offered to subsidize an army career, he replied: "My future belongs to the working class." After graduation from Oxford, Gaitskell lectured among coal miners in depressed areas, became an economics don at London University. During the war, he joined the civil service as an economist, in the Labor landslide of 1945 was swept into Parliament...
Tony Richardson, 34, is a Yorkshireman who hates things gently. As chief director among the so-called Angry Young Men, he helped Writer John Osborne toss a large red brick through the French doors of conventional English stagecraft, bringing the smell of soot and soft coal into the theater...
...Barcelona were blanketed with snow. Temperatures fell so low in Switzerland that the hardy monks and trusty dogs of St. Bernard retreated to the valley from their Alpine monastery. Ten French villages along the English Channel were isolated for days, and inhabitants ran out of bread, meat and coal. Roads in northern France became literally paths of ice, and a man could have skated 100 miles from Boulogne to Beauvais. As rivers and canals froze in The Nether lands, droves of ice skaters turned out, and 50 drowned in a single day. In some places along Europe's Baltic...
...polish of the Navy and the "game" of putting on a front for the Chinese. He tries to secede from the ship by taking refuge in caring for the one thing he knows and loves-engines. But when he begins to fix the Sand Pebble's decrepit coal-burning monstrosity-and, worse, agonizingly tries to teach a Chinese coolie how steam drives the pistons-he puts the whole ship in an uproar. The Chinese are not supposed to grasp theory. Engine work is coolie labor. The intricate fabric of protective illusion cannot bear the slightest intrusion of reality...