Word: fella
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Coober Pedy is Aboriginal for "white fella down a hole." Opals were discovered here, lying on the surface, by a 14-year-old boy back in 1915. He was looking for water but instead kept tripping over the "floaters," as surface opals are called. Few floaters are seen now; the opals are all underground, embedded in deep layers of soft sandstone. This whole area, millions of years ago, was ocean floor. So it is relatively easy to mine, and since opal mining is entirely an individual business, like California gold mining back in 1849, it has never been industrialized...
...work of jumbo boxing and dunking-booth dunking, a certain first-year--me--wondered if there were any sumptuous delights in that magnificent haven called the "Fried Dough Booth." Alas, it was not to be. A large, grim-faced man stopped my innocent inquiries with the fatal words, "Sorry, fella, you should've come earlier...
...were flashing handcuffs and saying, as one did, "Does it bother you that I have a gun on? Because I can put it in the other room." After the agents finally let her make a phone call to her mother, she says, one of them (the same fella who graciously offered to remove his gun) stood with his finger over the phone, ready to end the call if she said too much...
Suddenly, the tall bike messenger steps in front of me and says to the Gasbag, "Maybe you should calm down, fella." The Gasbag calms down. I look closely at the bike messenger. It's James Stewart. He has reason to protect me. He knows that I'm The American People...
...improved that standing with good constituent service--and an occasional visit to a rattlesnake roundup. "A lot of whites were scared to vote for a black, but Sanford changed all that," agrees R.S. Smith, 65, a white retiree in Bainbridge, looking over at Glenn. "Yeah, I'll give this fella a look...