Word: mine
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Testament and existed among the sages and rabbis before the Middle Ages. In their writings God often sounds like a member of the family to be submitted to but nonetheless argued with: "Though he slay me, yet will I trust in him," said Job, "but I will maintain mine own ways before...
Conservation-conscious Americans have been disturbed by recent disclosures in Congress indicating that a gold-and silver mining company named "Al Serena Mines" may have used fraudulent mineral assays to obtain the timbering and mineral rights on mining claims in Oregon. The suspected fraud should surprise few people, for it is no great revelation that private interests seeking public resources often resort to doctoring their documents and bribing officials to gain their loot. Astonishment should spring, rather, from the discovery that mining assays should have any bearing on timbering rights at all. The linkage of timbering and mineral rights dates...
...even less excusable that land rights on Federal mining claims should be granted without restrictions. Lumber companies which operate on Federal lands must receive a license, and they are closely supervised by the U.S. Forest Service, which compels them to harvest their timber in accordance with sound conservation theory. Yet "mining companies", which ordinarily operate for such a short period of time that they have no natural stake in conservation, usually mine the timber on their claim without control, making no effort to restore the forest...
...gold. Furthermore, she should be practiced in all sports without being champion in any one. I want her to be intelligent but not an intellectual. I want an ordinary woman who will give me an extraordinary feeling. I want her to give me the feeling that she is mine, only mine...
Incident in Mandalay. Last week in Burma, Serov's nerves seemed to be getting the better of him. London Observer Correspondent Philip Deane photographed a Burmese soldier demonstrating a mine detector at Mandalay airport, just before the arrival of Khrushchev and Bulganin. A 6-ft. MVD plainclothesman rushed the Burmese soldier to try to stop the picture. The incident, recorded on TV film, made Serov blaze with anger. "Who took that lying photograph?" he demanded later. When other Western newsmen refused to tell him, he got madder. "In Russia," he said, "a man who took that picture would...