Word: mined
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...been in this war a long time, seen action and must see much more I think your little fairy tale does the hope of mine and of all partisans of peace a grievous disservice. . . . The flower of world collaboration is a tender one indeed. And every hand in the world is not too many to nurture...
...enclosed from a letter of a friend of mine casts an interesting sidelight on the Ehrmantrauts' experience (TiME...
...Right Now." One new case came in, a man who had stepped on a land mine. Although he had been given a full grain of morphine, he was in extreme agony, and he pleaded with the doctors: "Please, can't you put me to sleep. My God, my feet feel numb." It was no wonder. One of his feet had been blown off just above the ankle, leaving a piece of charred bone protruding from beneath a hastily applied bandage. In addition, his other leg was mangled, probably beyond saving, and his arms and hands had been badly torn...
None of these proposals, he intoned righteously, constitute a violation of the Little Steel formula "contrary ... to our literary pundits and Government people who look into a whiskey glass and tell what the United Mine Workers are going...
What Now? Hundreds of other U.S. employers watched all this uneasily. Most of them had shrugged off Jimmy Petrillo's royalty on phonograph records (TIME, Nov. 20) as a lamentable freak. But if the coal industry began paying royalties into the treasury of the United Mine Workers, labor royalties would be a freak no longer. Other unions would soon be asking for royalties on automobiles, furniture, shoes and a thousand other manufactured products...