Word: mined
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Most of our cases now are the results of mine explosions. They are certainly the most treacherous thing that any madman ever conceived. They do such extensive, tragic damage-the kind we can't do very much about. How these boys can take it the way they do is beyond...
...daughters, I presume-gracious, but those bullet holes are disfiguring. And the little hemophiliac-Tsarevich Alexei! Ah, yes, I understand-doomed for a certain term to walk the night. . . . Why, I've scarcely given you a thought since that time when the Communists threw your bodies down the mine shaft in Ekaterinburg [now Sverdlovsk]. Whatever brings you here...
...Secure on the Home Front. The big, soft pillow used to smother the May-Bailey bill was another bill whipped up by West Virginia's New Dealing Senator Harley M. Kilgore, whose constituency is heavily weighted with labor votes, mostly United Mine Workers. The Kilgore measure would hand the manpower problem over to Paul V. McNutt's War Manpower Commission (which has fumbled it from the beginning). It would give neither WMC nor anyone else the authority needed in the crisis. Labor and management have come out for the Kilgore bill...
...afterthought she added: "Today I just about rushed into a buried mine. An American saved my life...
...Villa-Lobos legend (TIME, Jan. 29, 1940, et seq.) goes back to his youth, when he picked up a living playing in Brazilian cafes and theaters. When he be came known as a composer, he voiced a characteristic self-tribute: "Better bad of mine than good of others." Sent to France in 1922 on a Brazilian Government scholarship, he told his Paris teachers: "I didn't come to study with you; I came to show you what I've done...