Word: mine
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Never again, vow the people at Chessie System, the nation's largest coal hauler. Chessie has built three "galloping Gerties": huge steel vibrating fingers that loosen coal in one car every three minutes. Other railroads now have similar contraptions. To reduce the possible impact of a threatened United Mine Workers strike, industries and utilities increased their coal inventories during the autumn months...
...issuing editorial commands from headquarters, today's chains practice something called "local editorial autonomy," a soft-shoe phrase that can cover a lot of omissions. Now that more than 95% of American communities are without competing papers, a monopoly paper can be as much of a gold mine as a TV station. On chain papers, editors and publishers brought in from the outside and just passing through in their careers are often anxious not to rock the boat locally. Some have about as much feeling for a community's sense of itself and its needs as does...
...merely to survive as an emotional cripple on Thorazine crutches. "Life screams in the head of every artist with his typewriter or his pen, so let it," she writes to a fellow poet undergoing psychiatric treatment. "Write it all down ... anything you write now will be gold later so mine it and don't make the God-damned baskets...
After working on screenplays for eight James Bond films, I'm pleased by the suggestion that seeing one might help beat writer's block. Any thoughts about how to beat mine...
Perhaps Regoczy characterizes it best when she says, "When we go to a party, the first dance is always mine. But after that, well, we have enough dancing with each other...