Word: mined
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Walter Reuther was elected to the presidency of the Auto Workers in this very convention hall a year ago last March. I was here. I took his good little right hand in mine and I patted his red locks. 'Walter,' I said . . . 'Walter, I am going to support you.' He said, 'Phil...
...with the pay-before we'll dig more coal. Even with what you can earn, there's little to buy in the shops, that's worth buying, that is. Everything good goes for export. Well, they'd better send some of it to mine towns, if they want us to send coal to them. That's the export drive I want...
Playwright Rattigan (French Without Tears, O Mistress Mine) has made an effective stage piece of the story-so long as the story can be enacted on the stage. Pinched for drama toward the end, Rattigan, who has a trained theater eye for everything, including trash, trots out a lot of mildly mushy heroics. Never as serious a play as its theme demands, The Winslow Boy winds up little more than well-acted, generally interesting entertainment...
...confided to his diary: "We can still lose this war . . . the only time I ever made such a statement." The plan for the Third Army's subsequent breakthrough, Patton claims, was in his head complete as he awoke one morning: "Whether these tactical thoughts of mine are the result of inspiration or insomnia, I have never been able to determine, but nearly every tactical idea I have had has come into my head full-born, much after the manner of Minerva from the head of Jupiter...
...fiery President Gabriel González Videla was concerned, the Communists had asked for it. They had struck Chile's coal mines; he had expelled a Yugoslav diplomat on charges of pulling the strings (TIME, Oct. 20). And last week, when his troops were restoring order in the Lota coal fields, 2,000 Communist-dominated last-ditchers barricaded themselves in a mine tunnel and set off dynamite charges in front of advancing Chilean soldiers...