Word: mined
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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This abode of mine Adjoins a pine grove, Sitting on the blue sea. And from its humble eaves Commands a view of soaring Fuji...
...century ago, terror stalked the coal fields of eastern Pennsylvania. Men were gunned down on the open road and even in their own parlors. Informers had their ears cut off and their tongues torn out by the roots. Dynamite destroyed mine tipples and derailed freight trains. In one coal-mining county alone, there were 142 unsolved murders in 13 years...
This savage undeclared war was fought for nearly three decades, between unequal antagonists. On one side were a few thousand Irish immigrants who lived in shantytowns beside the collieries and worked in the mines for wages as low as 50½ a day. On the other were the absentee mine owners in Manhattan and London, who fought the battle through their mine superintendents-usually of English or Welsh origin-and their own private army, the Coal and Iron Police...
...sorrowful scene in Charleston, Humphrey stepped before television cameras to announce that "I am no longer a candidate for the Democratic presidential nomination." Folk Singer Jimmy Wofford twanged at his guitar, struck up a final woebegone chorus of "Vote for Hubert Humphrey, he's your man and mine . . ." Once more, tears came to Humphrey's eyes. Next morning the Senator emerged from the Ruffner Hotel to take his leave of West Virginia. On his campaign bus there was a parking ticket...
...amidst the casual atmosphere of a subdued county fair, a visitor can "see" his voice, watch a working model steel mill, scramble through a captured German submarine, ride an elevator down to an operating coal mine under the museum, watch thousands of plastic balls fall into a probability curve, follow a feather and a penny as they fall at the same rate in a vacuum. Everywhere, the visitor participates, pushing buttons, pulling levers, yanking chains, turning cranks and talking into phones. He can play ticktacktoe with a computer, watch baby chicks hatch, walk through a throbbing, 16-ft. model...