Word: ingly
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Nasty Job. The first trenches will connect stripped-out areas and so make a perimeter beyond which the fire cannot spread. Then the draglines will work in ward, digging both burning and nonburn-ing coal from the whole 130 acres. Says Mining Engineer Robert W. Bell, consultant to the Carbondale Redevelopment Authority: "A nasty job-rather dangerous." While working on burning coal, the dragline operators will be only the length of their booms (60 to 90 ft.) away from the hot stuff. Each scoopful will be dumped on high ground and sprayed with water. In many places the hot surface...
...helped Emperor Charles V in his struggles to win Italy. Charles rewarded him with a huge mastiff - and then a princedom "for the dog to run in." The admiral kept his palace staff hopping to the tune of bosun's pipes, once exercised his princely humor by order ing all his silver flung into the sea at a banquet's end. Afterwards Andrea Doria hauled his silver up again, in nets previously spread for the purpose...
With a straight face, Gart passed on this conservative tip to Contribut ing Editor Ed Jamieson in Manhattan, who wrote the cover story. Jamieson was also born in Boston, went to Bos ton University, thinks that one of the world's fairest sights is Boston Com mon at dusk...
...edit, everything that goes into our newspaper. Comic-strip art ists have no immunity.'' No, said Artist Kelly. "Once my name and copyright are on the strips, I am responsible for what is said in them and how it is said. I'd be will ing to let 519 papers go to hell if they want to insist on a right - which they do not have - to edit my copy." The Pogo balloon that Editor Colburn popped was only the beginning. Said Pogo a few strips later: "This fella said the thing to do when schools...
...condition before you wake him. Some of these kids stay out all night on benders and need the sleep the next day." Lapsing into the tone of breathless outrage chronic in newspaper exposes, Allen wrote: "I was stunned. Was this a junior high school or a sober-ing-up tank for juvenile drunkards...