Word: mined
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Japan's disaster toll last week stood at 450 in the Kyushu mine explosion, and 162 in the three-train wreck near Yokohama. As far as anyone could determine, both tragedies resulted from faulty cotter pins, only an inch or two long...
...Mikawa mine on southern Kyushu island, a cotter pin apparently fell out of a coupling on a string of coal cars halted on a slight incline. One coal car rolled back down into the mine. Gathering speed, it flew off the track on a curve in the tunnel and struck the mine wall, showering the fatal sparks that ignited coal dust in a vast explosion. At Tsurumi, outside Yokohama, another cotter pin evidently sheared off the wheel housing of a southbound freight car. The loose lost wheel caused the last three cars to derail and sprawl across the adjacent track...
With national elections being held this week, the Socialist opposition hurriedly tried to make political capital of the tragedies. An official Socialist statement blamed the government, which operates the railways, and the private owners of the mine for "having placed too much emphasis on efficiency and profit and not enough on the safety and security of passengers and employees...
...have children. But now her mind was made up. "Nothing is more important to a woman than a child. I have always dreamed of a daughter for Carlo and me. I already see her little fat legs in a short skirt, straight hair, high cheek bones like mine and the constant good humor of Carlo...
Take Her, She's Mine, adapted from the Broadway play, enunciates a proposition to which any reasonable man would eagerly subscribe: "Girls turn into women." But Jimmy Stewart is not a reasonable man. He plays the doting dad of a teen-aged twippet (Sandra Dee), and like most doting dads he has firmly decided that his little girl is always going to be a little girl...