Word: mined
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...honestly against the social intermingling of Negroes and whites but I hold nothing personal against the Negroes as a race. They should be proud of their God-given heritage just as l am proud of mine. I believe Negroes should have the right [to indiscriminate use of the ballot], and in Mississippi too-when their main purpose is not to put me out of office and when they won't try to besmirch the reputation of my state...
After almost four years of hoping, Italy was at last getting back its looted art, mostly from an Austrian salt mine where the Nazis had hidden it. The rescued treasures included such famed paintings as Bruegel's Blind Leading the Blind, Titian's Danae, Joos van Cleve's Adoration of the Magi, Palma Vecchio's Sacra Conversazione, Tiepolo's Neptune Offering Gifts to Venice...
Goring's art expert, a Berlin dealer named Walter Andreas Hofer, stored the offering in the salt mine where the Allies found it. They found Hofer too, and clapped him in jail. For most of the first year of the occupation, Hofer spent his nights in the clink and his days in a Munich art dump, identifying loot. Hofer's filing-cabinet memory for paintings, and his willingness to remember, helped win freedom for him and restitution for Italy...
...sensation: the strong implication that Hughes had tried to scare him off the investigation. Brewster said that Hugh Fulton, onetime chief counsel of the committee (under Harry Truman) and later one of Hughes's lawyers, came to him "as a friend of Howard Hughes and a friend of mine." Hugh Fulton, said Brewster, suggested that the investigation might turn out to be a hot potato for the Senator. That, said Brewster, incensed him so much that he called in his stenographer and had her take down his scorching retort in Fulton's presence...
Hirohito visited the depths of a Japanese coal mine, discovered that the sweating miners, who ordinarily wear nothing but G-strings, had put on shorts in his honor...