Word: mined
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...excellent article you wrote concerning the assignment of Bishop James S. Thomas and me [July 24], you inadvertently placed my name under the picture of Bishop Thomas and his name under mine...
...adviser's" role is not easy. Last week five more U.S. servicemen died in Viet Nam-two Army officers and an Air Force captain killed when an electric mine was detonated under their Jeep; an Army major shot dead by guerrillas in broad daylight in a village ten miles from Saigon; another major caught by machine-gun fire that raked his Vietnamese Ranger battalion. The roll of American dead would grow at a swifter pace as reinforcements arrived. Said a senior U.S. official in Saigon dryly: "When you put more people in a zone traversed by enemy bullets, your...
...which he founded in 1958), Boston's Richard Cardinal Gushing, 68, felt the twinges of age and chronic asthma. "I don't want to go," he confessed, "but just as St. Paul stung his flesh, and just as President Kennedy stung his flesh, so I must sting mine to fight the enemies of morality...
...back side, two mine-made holes were blown...
When she can muzzle her metaphors, Author Clark is a mine of oyster lore. Millions of years older than man, the oyster is "prolific to the point of indecency." Since oysters are hermaphrodites, a single oyster may be both a father and a mother, changing roles several times in the course of a year. In the best of all possible worlds, an oyster might live 15 years, but only one in 10,000 makes it to maturity. The tingle-snail can bore through the shell of a full-grown oyster and scoop out the meat in six hours. The starfish...