Word: dig
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Last week some 40,000 coal miners at Grimethorpe and other Yorkshire mines, who have doggedly resisted Government attempts to get them back to work, agreed to dig coal again. Their 35-day strike had cost Britain some 570,000 tons of coal...
...thin, biting air of Catavi, 13,000 feet above sea level, the great refining plant last week lay still and smokeless. Past the paymaster's windows shuffled the Indians who dig and smelt a third of Bolivia's tin from the biggest of the Patiño mines. All 7,000 of them were being fired...
Fantasy in the Open. In his introduction, Forster remarks: "Fantasy now tends to retreat, or to dig herself in, or to become apocalyptic out of deference to the atom. She can be caught in the open in this book, by those who care to catch her." Forster's boast is pretty well borne out by these twelve stories...
...Cape Breton we just dig a hole in the coal face, put in the powder, and the coal is blown out for us. All we have to do is shovel it. Out there you have to use a jackhammer to pry the coal off the face, and even after that you have to dig the rocks out. That kind of mining isn't easy...
...Reiter hopped a bus for Texas. He had run out of money by the time he hit Waco, Tex. (pop. 56,000), but he had a letter addressed to two sisters who ran a china shop. To them he pleaded: "Just one concert let me give." They helped dig up money and musicians. Four weeks later Max Reiter conducted his first U.S. performance, with a makeshift Waco Symphony. San Antonio heard about it and invited him to form an orchestra there...