Word: home
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...striking soft-coal miners roamed the countryside in automobile caravans to make sure the mines stayed closed. In Glenridge, Ill., 145 miners showed up briefly but did not even change into work clothes. A few Pennsylvania hard-coal miners turned up at tipples, chatted awhile and then headed back home; most of the 80,000 anthracite miners were also out on a sympathy strike. Nearly everywhere the U.S. digs its coal, mining operations creaked to an almost complete standstill...
...Black Robe. He never lost touch with his old friend in the capital. Last week the telephone call from the White House finally came to the commodious New Albany home where Judge Minton sat nursing a broken leg. (He tripped on a stone outside his home.) "Harry told me he was naming me and asked what I thought about it," said the judge. "I told him I thought it was wonderful...
...KENTUCKY HOME (438 pp.)-Elliot Paul-Random House...
...years ago Author Paul shifted his gaze to his homeland, started a multivolumed story of his life. In My Old Kentucky Home he takes a look at the third U.S. community on the Paul autobiographical itinerary: Louisville...
Power of the Word. In Denver, 63-year-old Nathan Mullin, stopped by two gunmen on his way home from church, routed them by slapping one of them across the face with his Bible...