Word: mined
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...lights blinked out in the Centralia Coal Company's Mine No. 5, near Centralia, Ill. Wiry, redheaded Earl Wilkinson had just coasted his squat, electric locomotive out of a tunnel, banged to a stop in a low cavern near the mine's elevator shaft. He stiffened, listened intently. He heard no sound. But a wind came out of the subterranean darkness and enveloped him in clouds of coal dust and coppery-smelling smoke. "God," he said aloud, "it's a bad windy* or an explosion...
From northern Shropshire down to the Bristol Channel, the Severn swirled over its highest known flood marks. Many Yorkshire mine pits were inundated-another serious setback for coal production...
...Historian Thomas Carlyle, remarking that it was rumored to be the work of a "Rev. Edward FitzGerald, who lived somewhere in Norfolk and spent much time in his boat." Cried Carlyle: "Why, he's no more Reverend than I am! He's a very old friend of mine . . . and [he] might have spent his time to much better purpose than in busying himself with the verses of that old Mohammedan blackguard...
...seemed like a bad week to Reid Robinson, head of the Mine, Mill & Smelter Workers (C.I.O.). A third of his locals had seceded, accusing him of being proCommunist. He resigned. The man who succeeded him was his vice president, Maurice E. Travis-who was redder than Robinson. The secessionists were not appeased...
...offensives in areas far from Greece. Poland's press bitterly complained that, after such "expansion by the means of loans," the U.S. would not have enough left over for "needy countries" (such as Poland). Obviously looking for assistance from closer friends, Premier Josef Cyrankiewicz and Industrial Minister Hilary Mine had just junketed to Moscow for joint-defense and trade talks...