Word: mined
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...mine Too young to know what...
...French, a hero must have not only courage but also savoir-faire. A 45-year-old mine foreman named André Martinet last week showed plenty of both...
...underground veteran of 18 years in the pits, Martinet was trapped some 220 ft. below the surface when a limestone mine deep inside Mont Rivel suddenly shook, loosing tons of rocks into the shafts. With him were eight fellow workers, most of them younger. "At first we did not dare move," recalled Joseph Cattenoz, 31. "But then André was with us, and he took over." From the first moments of a marathon drama that lasted for more than a week, the short, balding, beak-nosed Martinet was the indispensable man. With him in the lead, the men explored...
...story. What did it all mean-if anything? "Barefoot inconsequentiality," as the Guardian snorted? Or "a much-needed shot in the backside," as the Sunday Times averred? Most balletomanes tended to the Observer's verdict that the three "are so full of invention that they will be a mine for imitators for years...
...fall of Windfall brought other penny stocks crashing down with it. Many run-of-the-mine speculators took a hard dive last week, and even experienced investors took a stiff beating. Many companies in the Timmins area were able to put money in their treasuries before the Windfall affair, intend to go on drilling on the theory that one failure is not decisive. But the Windfall case could discourage the speculative buying that Canada needs to find mines, and it will probably produce legislation to introduce stricter regulation of the securities business, including full disclosure of insiders' dealings...