Word: mined
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Reese's cartoons are a mixture of ink and acid. "You live your life sentence, I'll live mine," one Reese convict growls at another over mess-hall coffee. Says a guard to a prisoner in solitary on bread and water: "White or rye?" Says an inmate to a guard: "Let's get one thing straight, McPherson: I live here, you just work here." Occasionally Reese slips into macabre, sick-style prison humor: "Ain't I a pain in the neck?" says the hangman to the condemned. But some of his cartoons rise to a choking...
Then there are Dandin's snobbish in-laws, M. and Mine, Sotenville--who are indeed, as their name suggests, the town fools. Dixie Bolton puts over much of Madame's vanity and prudery; but most impressive of all is her outrageous costume: a blue and green gown, with a hat adorned by yellow, pink and blue plumes, and a black...
...cars, Van Doorne has had a hard time finding enough workers in the labor-short Netherlands, recently took on 1,200 Belgians at DAF's Eindhoven plant. Pleased with their work, he plans to build a second DAF plant in Belgium's Limburg province, where coal-mine automation will ultimately idle...
...handle him any more. I remember one day I hit as good a drive as I could, maybe 260 yds. I told Jack, 'If you outhit that one, I'll buy you a Cadillac convertible.' He hit his ball 25 or 30 yds. past mine, and I never outdrove him again." (Jack never forgot the promise, settled for a Mercury convertible when he graduated from high school.) About that same time, Jack caught the eye of Jack Grout, then a pro at Columbus' Scioto Country Club. Recalls Grout: "I smoked a good...
...miners' grievance this time was a proposed new wage contract that failed to give unskilled workers the raise they demanded from a basic minimum of 60 pesetas ($1) a day to 150 pesetas ($2.50) a day. Suddenly one morning, seven picadors (cutters) at a mine in Mieres refused to begin the day's work. In a flash the whole mine joined the down-tools movement. Within a matter of days all 60,000 miners in the region quit...