Word: lode
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...exploit that lode, the industry has to change radically. Estimated demand will grow this year by 10%, to 660 million tons, but domestic output will not keep up with it. Forecasts for 1974 production range from a repetition of last year's 590 million tons to 650 million tons. Indeed, several New England utilities have already contracted to buy coal from Poland. The industry is having some trouble raising money for expansion. Investors worry particularly about the three gritty problems that bedevil coal...
...break for donating his vice-presidential papers to the National Archives. The papers had been prepared or gathered while he was on the public payroll, primarily using public facilities and the services of other federal employees. To the non-expert, Nixon's papers might seem to contain a lode of trivia. Occupying 825 cu. ft, they include 414,000 letters, 87,000 items relating to public appearances (including speech texts), 27,000 invitations (along with acceptances and refusals) and 57,000 items relating to foreign trips. Nonetheless, this material could well be valuable to historians who one day will...
Novelist Leland Frederick Cooley works the genealogical lode like a Forty-Niner. In a preface to his 607-page paperback epic, Cooley speaks pointedly of his Mexican great-grandmother and his Mexican-Welsh grandmother. Then he attempts a vast, three-generation dynastic "saga" of the Lewis family. It starts with a Yankee ancestor's jumping ship at Monterey to start a dynasty in the 1830s and ends in the 1960s with the business-and land-rich heirs grimacing over the pot parties of their young and wondering what catastrophes Cesar Chavez and his troublemakers are going to visit...
...number of diggers at the rich archaeological lode, most of them volunteers, has grown steadily. They have already removed some 100,000 cu. ft. of earth, painstakingly examining all of it. Each fistful of dirt must be carefully sifted through screens, not only for fragments of Stone Age tools and weapons but also for bones, plant remains and other seemingly trivial objects. Fossilized snails, for example, can be studied for evidence of ancient climatic changes (different species survive in different temperature ranges). That, in turn, could explain why some of the settlements were abandoned. Seeds, on the other hand...
...four and send the bill to the White House." Paul knows his people and their voices, and that is not the way things are done. He politely informed the impostor that he had no tables left, and the incident was quietly buried in Paul's memory, a rich lode of human behavior at the epicenter. Paul says, "I don't hear anything, I don't see anything, I don't say anything...