Word: mined
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...prefers to call it a "memorial holiday" or a "spontaneous" walkout. Last week, Lewis rumbled out a new and fancy phrase for it. The heavy supply of coal on hand, said the chief, had produced "menacing instability" in the industry, threatening the national economy, and even the United Mine Workers. To correct this situation, Lewis proclaimed "a brief stabilizing period of inaction...
...late Jerome Kern of Ol' Man River, was less enthusiastic about the liberties Robeson was taking with his classic. "I have no intention of changing [the lyrics] or permitting anyone else to change them," he said. "I further suggest that Paul write his own songs and leave mine alone...
...sophomore year, I purchased a ticket to an ice-hockey match. I admitted to a friend of mine that the contest was rather exciting for the first few minutes, but I was forced to add: "When you've seen them chase up and down the court once, you've seen the whole game." An old gentleman (whom I later discovered to be a prominent Boston Harvard Club member) overheard my remark, called some attendants, and had me escorted to the exit of the arena...
...desperately that she was dragged along with the men to the miners' union hall. Before long, 14 other engineers and foremen, including six U.S. citizens, were brought to the hall. The kidnaping of the engineers was part of a plan to force the return of Mine Union Boss Juan Lechin, who had been banished to Chile along with 19 of his aides on a charge of plotting to overthrow the government...
...week's end, after the government had said that Lechin could come back "when things return to normal," most of Bolivia was working again. Even the miners had begun to go back to the pits. The only important exceptions were U.S. and other foreign mine managers, who had been evacuated by plane after the fighting stopped. Many of them refused to return to their posts, leaving Bolivia short of the know-how needed...