Word: dust
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...lack of employer contributions, pension payments will also be cut off for most of the 86,000 retired union members if the strike continues beyond Jan. 1. Some retirees take grim satisfaction in the fact that they contracted black lung, a generally incurable disease caused by inhaling coal dust. That ailment guarantees them lifelong disability payments. "If we lost our pension, I could survive," says Ashland ("Hawk") Howard, 62, a retiree in David, Ky. "But if I did not collect for black lung, I'd really be in trouble." Howard gets a pension of $225 a month...
Three days after John F. Kennedy was shot in Dallas, the Justice Department ordered the FBI to write a comprehensive report that would "settle the dust" of controversy and suspicion surrounding the assassination. In 14 years the bureau compiled more than 80,000 pages of documentation. Half of that massive archive was released to the public last week following freedom-of-information lawsuits (see following story); the other half will come out next month. While the avalanche of paper will not sweep away all the doubts, mysteries and conspiracy theories, it leaves very much intact the verdict reached...
...capital carved out of the bush, the crowd roared its approval as President Lucas Mangope, head of the new government, declared that "at last we are no longer helplessly at the mercy of the arbitrary arrogance of those who until this hour trampled our human dignity into the dust...
...third Crimson sweep of the evening came in the 60 yard dash, where Harvard runners Wayne Moore, Ralph Polillio, and Joe Salvo left their Bruin competition behind, if not in a cloud of dust, then in a flurry of little pink eraser stubs...
Unions and unionism, specifically the U.M.W., play an inordinate role in the lives of 17's members and their families. Through the union comes just about the only work around. Its influence is as pervasive as the coal dust that is everywhere. "There is nothing more sacred than the union," says Cecil Roberts, 17's vice president...