Word: coaling
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...heard two loud explosions Dust was everywhere People were running and screaming "save us. A coal cart fell over me," survivor Saban Kardes told The Associated Press from his hospital bed in Eregh, Turkey...
ANKARA, Turkey--Underground explosions in a coal mine near the Black Sea killed 96 workers and injured 89 others in Turkey's worst mine accident state radio said yesterday...
February 25, 12:44 a.m.--A male undergraduate returned to his forth floor room in Gilbert Hall and found his belongings had been disturbed, and a $150 watch as well as $5 in cash had been stolen. A 13-year-old youth wearing a blue coal with a red "V" on it was seen leaving the room earlier that evening...
Each character is distinct, but several of the male protagonists share characteristics and concerns, making much of the collection seem like loose variations on a theme. The young men try to farm the family land, are scab truck-drivers, sell whiskey at illegal cockflights of mine coal. Attached to the land, they feel trapped and in complete in their tedious, brutal jobs and empty relationships with family and women but a more satisfying life is out of reach. In "A Room Forever," a man who works on Ohio River tugboats begins to tire of life passed in hotel rooms...
When Pancake ventures into over symbolism. He handles it lightly enough to be effective, not closing "Hollows" a story about a coal miner caught between hard times and a girlfriend who demands a more comfortable way of life is base with brief images of a bobcat corned by dogs...