Word: heisley
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...Newt Heisley, 88, submitted his stark design for the flag used to memorialize prisoners of war and soldiers who have gone missing in action. Bearing the inscription "You are not forgotten," it still flies from federal buildings on occasions like Memorial Day and Veterans...
...State Bank across the street. In Suchman's jewelry store, a few doors from the bank, a miner's wife looked over the slim stock of watches, hunting a gift for her soldier son. The pillar of smoke that came from the main stack of the Heisley mine (one of the three within the town's limits) fused into the rain, flattened, hung over the landscape in a grey pall. The hands of the clock outside the window of Such man's jewelry store moved...
...more rapid pulse within the earth, the life of Nanty Glo began to quicken. Women appeared at the doors of the almost identical, bleak, boxlike houses that line the town, the lesser wooden shacks; children and dogs ventured into the rain. At the entrance to the tunnel of the Heisley mine, the thick steel cable which miners call "the rope" began to move. After five minutes, scores of coal cars filled with miners came from beneath the earth, black as the coal they mined, only the whites of their eyes and the red of their lower lips showing through...
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