Word: mined
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...back down the tunnel. When they reached the entrance to a drift called Main West they knew what had happened. Somewhere, far down Main West's four-mile bore, gas or coal dust had exploded, like powder going off in a gun barrel. And almost all of the mine's 142-man day shift was inside. Retching and staggering, some of the explorers tried to get in. One of them dropped and died before they were forced back. Finally, hardly able to walk, they made it back to the elevator, rode up the shaft, emerged dazedly into...
...Martians. The news spread fast. By late afternoon a crowd was gathering at No. 5. It was as though the cast for some vast and somber drama was assembling before curtain time. Scores of miners' wives seated themselves numbly on benches in the mine washroom. Rescue crews from towns all around the coal fields-from Belleville, Herrin, Du Quoin, Eldorado, West Frankfort-stood in their hard-toed shoes studying a map of No. 5. Near them were reporters, photographers, state troopers, Red Cross workers, and the drivers of the hearses parked outside...
Faint Sound. In all, 111 men had died. It was the worst mine disaster in the U.S. since 195 miners died in an explosion at Mather, Pa. in 1928. To miners and many a plain citizen it seemed like a senseless tragedy. Mine inspectors had been denouncing Centralia's No. 5 for years-one recent report had listed many dangerous violations of safety codes, but little had ever been done to correct them...
...time - and attract attention - Johnny started juggling whatever came to hand. "That," says Fred, "was my first and biggest mistake." At six, he had performed his way into St. Anthony's choir, rose to be a Wise Man in the Christmas play. His first stage lines: "Myrrh is mine; its bitter perfume breathes a life of gathering gloom." Every week after school, Fred went to Keith's to see the new show and pick up jokes and routines. He even began making up a few of his own. An early Allen (from algebra class): "Let X equal...
...delicatessen. Is coming every day for lunch a liverwurst salesman. He is a goodtime Irving, a fancy dandy, also floiting a bissel. The liverwurst salesman is to the other waitress, Supreme Feitelbaum, engaged. With ogling, also babytalk, I am stealing him away. For 20 years already he is mine husband Pierre. Crime does not pay!" Pierre, who now is never seen (or heard) in the Alley, is a luckless "schmo" who plays the ponies at "Epstein Downs" and "Hia-Levy." He is so unlucky that "if it is raining borsch outside, Pierre will be standing with a fork. He will...