Word: mine
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...fully enjoyed your Nov. 26 review of Write Me a Poem, Baby. After taking her class to the Museum of Natural History, a schoolteacher friend of mine asked each child to write a little composition. The following was one of the results...
Friendly Persuasion (Anthony Perkins; Epic). A movie tune with lyrics in Quaker lingo ("Thee is mine . . . thee pleasures me") that make the canny Quakers look pretty silly. It has a mighty purty tune, by that old Quaker from Russia, Dimitri Tiomkin...
...with respect to property seized by an individual which he may be forced to bring into a courtroom." This view ignored the classic use of the contempt-of-court charge to enforce the injunctive power, e.g., in the fines totaling $30,000 levied in 1946 and 1948 against United Mine Workers President John L. Lewis for disobeying a court order to return his miners to work. The contempt citation is, in fact, the obvious way and the only reasonable way that the courts have to back up the Supreme Court's two-year-old desegregation decision...
...through mismanagement, inexperience, selfishness and corruption, nearly all the plans went wrong. Many miners, freed from tin-baron discipline, now work at the shaft faces only three hours a day. A vast above-ground bureaucracy milks the treasury for wages. Worst of all, mine commissaries, begun years ago to provide miners with essentials at subsidized prices, have grown out of all proportion because miners buy commissary goods to resell in black markets. Commissary sales last year were double the entire miners' payroll, and the subsidies amounted to 77% of the cost of running the mines. On the land...
...James Crawford (Jimmy) Angel, 57, crash-scarred oldtime bush pilot who joined the Canadian Air Corps at 16 in World War I, afterward soldiered in China, stunted in Hollywood and in 1935 discovered Angel Fall, the world's highest (3,212 ft.) waterfall, while chasing down a gold mine over Venezuela; after six months in a coma following a cerebral hemorrhage suffered while he was recuperating after a plane crash; in Balboa...