Word: lating
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...their stubbornness and steadfastness, the miners have been hurt by the lengthy strike. TIME'S Chicago bureau chief, Benjamin Gate, describes conditions in West Frankfort (pop. 9,400): "With most people eating at home, the Country Fried Chicken Shack and the Pancake House close early. By late afternoon, the streets are deserted and the supermarket parking lots empty. Down the side streets, the small, neat clapboard houses are dimly lit, if at all, with porch lights extinguished. Outside of town, along the bleak and muddy roads, stand the idled mines, their gantries tall and silent. The mines are deserted...
Ironically, the genesis of today's problems came during the years before the enfeebled Lewis retired at age 79 in 1960. The union was badly shaken by mechanization-300,000 mining jobs disappeared in 15 years-by the recession in the late '50s, and by the growing use of oil. Thousands of miners began working in "dog-holes," small, nonunion mines that were underselling the large operators. The U.M.W. permitted a series of "sweetheart" contracts under which management and locals ignored sections of the national contract to keep mines in business and save jobs. But the sweethearts...
...late '70s, this plan is nearly Napoleonic in scope, and it does not lack for skeptics. The massive culture enclaves of the past two decades, symbolized by Manhattan's Lincoln Center, are causing financial trouble for the arts organizations they house. Denver may also learn about the perils of overbuilding. But last week there was no time for such pessimism. The first new structure of the center, the Boettcher Concert Hall, opened to raves from the public and from music and architecture critics. The three days of programs became the kind of celebration that happens when a city...
...lineal descendant of the late Senate Bill 1, which died in the Senate Judiciary Committee during the summer of 1976, when it met heavy liberal opposition because of fearsome provisions in the areas of sentencing and restraints on a free press. Out of the ashes of that bill rose S. 1437. The trick is that the body of the bill remains substantially the same, with most of the changes in the aforementioned areas...
Saint Patrick was a mysterious figure of the early or late fifth century, Bloomfield said. "We don't know much about him except that he existed and was responsible for the spread of Christianity when the Celts were being pushed westward by the Romans," he said, adding. "The English couldn't take St. Patrick away...