Word: mined
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...settled by the people of Wisconsin when they vote in the primary on whether they agree with this manipulation of the Democratic Administrative Committee." In Indianapolis, Humphrey was blissfully unperturbed: "For anyone to accuse the Wisconsin Democratic committee of manipulation is to falsely accuse. The decision is theirs, not mine...
Never "peevish," always sunny and generous (like mischievous, young [37] TIME magazine, in fact), I did not refer to the admirable Arthur Miller as a "writer-cripple" [Jan. 18]. That is Miller's phrase, not mine; it appears in its proper context in a theater piece I wrote for the current Partisan Review...
Misery lit the bloodshot eyes of the black woman in tattered dress huddled on her knees near the mine shaft at Coalbrook North. As a white man passed, she clutched his legs and moaned, "Baas, please, baas, tell me where my man is." Five hundred feet below, her man, and 439 others, all but six of them Africans, were trapped behind thousands of tons of rock and coal in a half-mile-long gallery of No. 10 section...
...Every revolutionary," Camus declared, "ends up by being an oppressor or a heretic." Just how far his heresy would take him, he himself did not know. "If one could create a party of those who are not sure they are right," he said, "it would be mine." Yet, at last, the heavy weight of nihilism and Marxism seemed lifted. "It may be necessary to fight a lie in the name of a quarter-truth," said Camus. "That is our situation at present. The quarter-truth that Western Civilizations contain is called liberty. Without liberty it is possible to improve heavy...
Murder is at the heart of the book. The unloved manager of a coal mine is knocked on the head and tumbled into a river one dark night. There is ample reason for doing him in; the strike, a disastrous eruption in 1926, has been bitter, the manager was a harsh boss, and he has been slipping up the back stairs to visit the wife of one of the miners...