Word: holes
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...bottom of a black hole, deeper than twice the height of the Empire State Building, a coal miner named Josef earned his daily bread this difficult winter. Fifteen European countries, including Germany, have a grim interest in Josef, for their economic revival is closely tied to the amount of coal which he and some 300,000 other miners win from the rich Ruhr mines. In the dust-choked gloom of the pit face TIME Correspondent Percy Knauth talked with Josef, trying to learn why the miners are producing only half as much as before...
...ultimately against the state. Most of the nation's editorial writers, recalling Calvin Coolidge and the Boston police strike, held that the strikers were in the wrong, even while many writers sympathized with their grievances. (According to the Federation, the average Buffalo teacher was going into the hole every year, had to borrow, or take a part-time job to make ends meet...
...Brickley reported after the examination yesterday that the 22-year old Gardiner had ice skates fastened to his feet. Lieutenant Edward L. Connally of the Lower Basin Division M.D.P., surmised that the third string football center and Varsity stroke oar had gone through an ice hole hidden from the moonlight in the shadow of a bridge farther up the river...
...contemplating the gaping hole in the argyle sock, where he was about to commit his bare foot, when his reveries were interrupted by a stealthy knock at the door. "It's open," he purred, in the renowned mellow 100 proof tone, as a mufflered figure sidled in, peering in both directions over the upturned label of a secondhand Brooks Brothers overcoat...
Dartmouth kept ace freestyleer Dick Hartung in the hole against Navy, but he will be played against the Crimson tonight...