Word: mined
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...proposal [is] a badly camouflaged mine . . . inserted under the future security organization. He heads the most reactionary wing of the Republican Party. He calls for no haste in the formation of a security organization. His thoughts are clear...
That night, after curfew, two of the goth's military police stopped two women in the village street. The women explained that they were going for a midwife. The MPs went along, just to be certain. They passed an entrance to a salt mine. Said one of the Hausfrauen: "That's where the bullion is hidden." MP ears perked up: How's that again? The woman repeated the gossip she had heard-Germany's gold had been salted away in that mine...
Some of the penny stocks, like Quemont-whose mine in western Quebec has yielded high-assay ore-have genuine mines behind them. But the only claim of some is that they are located next door to something good, and many of the promoted properties do not even exist...
...Wrote Pfc. Felix J. Murphy Jr. of Bellaire, L.I.: "It still does not seem possible that so much hell could have been all in one place. Someone's prayers were answered, also mine, because I came out. . . . I don't really think I was afraid to die, but I was afraid of something. . . . I felt that when God wanted me he would take me, so I just kept on praying...
...Mine. In Jersey City, when jury members at a murder trial politely reminded the judge that they were low on smokes, the prosecution dug up six packs of cigarets, the defense a handful of cigars...