Word: mined
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...would not dirty other passengers. He found that miners lived in a segregated world of their own. He began to carry a big chip on his shoulder. Once a supervisor asked him why he did not take off his jacket while he worked. "There's nothing in the Mine Act that says I have to," snapped Bevan...
...former mine mates peered over Bevan's shoulder. "Why, man, that's pretty true, you know," he said. "But by God, mind you live...
...proper place. High up among the feckless "aVisto-crats" who plugged their ears to the revolution's rumble was portly Andrei Plakhin, Soviet Ambassador to Denmark, who came to Marvel's party dressed as an estate manager in Czarist days. Not to be outdone as an escapist, Mine. Plakhin looked fetching as a simple peasant maid...
After the meeting, in the privacy of his own home, Sun wearily spoke his mind: "The new government, no matter who heads it, will face even worse difficulties than mine." China had little hope, he added, of negotiating a satisfactory peace with the Communists or of holding off the Reds if fighting was resumed...
...Hubert remains undecided about the disposal of: a $3,000 diamond ring and a $1,000 star sapphire; a $2,500 diamond watch; a custom-built $1,000 kitchen ("If it's more modern than mine, I'll take it"); a $425 record library; an ermine jacket, hat and muff; a one-year scholarship to the Berkshire Hills girls school; a $2,850 trip to Paris and Monte Carlo ("I'd rather go somewheres else-like California...