Word: mine
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Faces covered with grit and hearts filled with distrust toward both union and company leaders, the nation's 165,000 male and 800 female unionized coal miners walked off their jobs last weekend, 48 hours before the expiration Monday midnight of the United Mine Workers' contract with the coal companies. (With so little time remaining, few miners felt compelled to work beyond the shift ending at midnight Saturday, and the companies were not scheduling Monday production.) Thus began what will probably be a long stoppage, perhaps twice as long as the 32-day walkout in 1974, over...
...explain the purposes of Gay Wednesday. He signed the letter. I was positively astounded. I could not believe that there was a human being alive with the courage to sign that letter. As it turned out, I knew him--he was in a class of mine--and because of that letter, I came to admire and respect him as I respected few people in the world...
...straight friend of mine asked toward the beginning of the semester where I went on Wednesday nights. So heavy is the presumption that any given person is heterosexual that when I told him I went to Gay Students Association meetings, he asked why. Any gay person would have thought it rather obvious. This friend had known me only casually for more than three years, and I was afraid he would become cool toward me. In fact, he has become my closest friend...
...reiterate that I am sympathetic with the causes which PIRG espouse. I suppose that it a majority expresses the desire to institute the plan, I will still have a choice; but the aim of this letter is that students become aware of trivial objections such as mine before expressing their opinion on the petition as it now stands. Thomas C. Seoh...
...have been one of my section leaders, but if that were the case, he wouldn't have known my name. It couldn't have been Bill Cleary the hockey coach, because (a) my ankles turn when I skate and (b) he'd never call anyone with a resume like mine...