Word: mined
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Anesthetic explosions in the operating room can be properly guarded against only if the anesthesiologist gets an early warning-well before his mixture of gases has actually reached the danger point. Dr. John F. Zeedick of Braddock General Hospital, near Pittsburgh, working with the Mine Safety Appliances Co., has developed a portable combustible gas indicator that can be conveniently hooked into most modern anesthesia machines. Its moving needle shows safe concentrations of gas on a green scale, cautionary readings on an orange scale. When the explosive level is reached, the needle crosses onto a red scale. Dr. Zeedick...
...establishing his own relationship to them, or one ignores these phenomena, thereby relinquishing all hope of control over his destiny. What Harvard's Deans would have undergraduates do, so far as I can tell, is to adhere to a moral code that applies neither to their generation nor to mine. I have the impression that it is precisely this attitude--uttering outworn beliefs while rooted in new realities--that has led to the astonishingly high rate of marital mortality and sexual misfortune that exists in this country. Those people who are most fully committed to the old morality, either clinging...
Since then, 17,200 men from 21 countries have labored and eight companies have invested $220 million to turn Nimba's jagged 111-acre summit into a massive mine. Last week huge shovels scooped Nimba's soft ore into 32-ton Haulpaks, native drilling teams dotted the mountainside and a fully automated crushing plant ground out ore for shipment to a man-made harbor at Buchanan...
...first conversations were necessarily political. Knight assumed my inferiority in his territory and wanted to prove it in mine: the white problem. He knew my line of course. He had heard it before. I was working for the Student Non-Violent Coordinating Committee, I was "the new Movement cat," and so I could be counted on to talk voter registration and non-violence, and to exonerate white drunks and poor-white cops of ultimate blame for the exploitation of Negroes in this country...
...last year at last devised a stratagem to baffle the barbarians. He wrote a picture and then produced it himself-at a cost of about a million. This is it and he loves it. "For the first time," he says proudly, "I have a feeling that a movie is mine...