Word: fingers
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...played host to the world's largest cocaine-trafficking operation, and the U.S., which was at the receiving end of the line, was not at all happy. The new junta and American narcs quickly worked out a cozy arrangement. Five federal drug agents flew to Chile to finger smugglers. Chilean police arrested and eventually expelled the suspects on a nonstop flight to the U.S.-often after days of torture to check on any possible antijunta activities. The arrangement is still in effect, to the dismay of at least 16 Chileans who are currently being tried...
Hines sat out freshman year and fractured his left hand earlier this year but will return to action next week. Hill fractured a finger in three places during the Bentley scrimmage and will be lost from three to six weeks...
Many miners lose an eye, and many more lose fingers; the Mining Enforcement and Safety Administration estimates that three out of every five miners who have been in the pits for 20 years or more have lost a finger in a conveyor belt or some other machinery. In addition, 215,000 miners are disabled by black-lung disease, caused by breathing coal dust. Says Miller: "A miner who gets black lung gives up ten or 15 years of his life. And it's a helluva way to go. It took my stepfather five years...
...floors were oily, and a thick blue mist of evaporated coolant made it impossible to see from wall to wall. The men were issued specially lined gloves to handle the hot iron but the grease and the work wore them down in a day. Soon Johnson lost one finger and lacerated another. He had back, stomach, chest and head pains; he often felt nauseous...
Back home, his first stage play was a resounding success in 1958. Five Finger Exercise was a taut rearrangement of that staple of British drama, the middle-class family turned into a pack of cannibals. His next work, the hit comedy double bill The Private Ear and The Public Eye, did not appear until 1962. He is a slow, easily distracted writer. It took him six years to finish The Royal Hunt...