Word: mined
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...county jail at Lawton, Okla., a man charged with embezzlement passed the time by hacking away his wooden leg with a razor. To questioners, he retorted shortly: "It's mine...
...through the front lines and joined the Russian army. "I want to fight Germans," he said. After training only twelve days, Abraham was up in the front line for the first Russian big push toward Kharkov. In the Russian retreat to Stalingrad, he was wounded by an exploding land mine. When he rejoined his unit, it was for Zhukov's march to Berlin. The Russians sent him to the Potsdam officers' school...
...against the tottering Manchu dynasty was in progress. Swept along by the torrent, Mao clipped off his queue as an antimonarchist demonstration. Other students promised to follow his example, but later reneged. This prepared Mao for party discipline-or what Lenin called "democratic centralism." Recalls Mao: "A friend of mine and I therefore assaulted them in secret and forcibly removed their queues, a total of more than ten falling victim to our shears...
...usually affable toward U.S. visitors. One U.S. authoress-Agnes Smedley-reported this impression: "The tall, forbidding figure lumbered toward us and a high-pitched voice greeted us. Then two hands grasped mine; they were as long and sensitive as a woman's . . . Whatever else he might be, he was an esthete . . . He asked a thousand questions . . . We spoke of India; of literature; once he asked me if I had ever loved any man, and why, and what love meant...
Died. Theodore R. Middleton, 52, hard-bitten sheriff of Kentucky's "bloody Harlan" County during the '30s, famed for his rough treatment of United Mine Workers organizers; of a heart attack; in Lexington, Ky. In 1937, Middleton admitted to the La Follette Civil Liberties Investigations Committee that he owned coal company stock, and that most of his 370-odd deputies were paid by the coal companies (documents showed that one-quarter of them had criminal records...