Word: mined
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...lover began to kick her for her failure to please his friend. "What is thine is mine," he screamed in a rage, "and what is mine is his and thine...
...when his boot came down in a high clump of grass. The Marines saw his body lift into the air even before they heard the explosion. Though a Marine patrol had passed safely through the area only seconds before, Fall's boot had come upon a buried land mine left by the Viet Cong. Badly maimed by shrapnel, Fall sank to the ground, was dead within two minutes. The photographer died with...
...ahead of all the other 360 candidates in the Athens bar exams. Reason: Georgakakis, 33, has no eyes, an artificial right hand, and only one finger on his left hand that has any sense of touch. A onetime Cretan shepherd boy who received his disabilities from a German mine explosion in 1944, Georgakakis uses the tip of his tongue to "read" Braille, got through law school by tape-recording and memorizing 60,000 pages of legislation. Highly impressed by his showing, the bar examiners took an unprecedented step: they urged every imaginable government and business leader to hire the winner...
...well as improve existing facilities. At the same time, Anaconda Chairman Charles M. Brinckerhoff, 66, recently signed a 20-year agreement with the Chilean government that should help stabilize the company's operations in that country; unlike its chief U.S. competitors, Kennecott and Phelps Dodge, both of which mine most of their copper at home, 65% of Anaconda's supply comes from Chile...
Hunter's story is based loosely on a novel by Sax Rohmer, the creator of the formidable Fu Manchu. Fu, you may recall if your youth was as misspent as mine, was a satanic supermind who ran a terrorist organization called the Si Fan, "to which fully one-third of the world's colored races belong," and while he never quite achieved the complete global domination he so earnestly sought, Fu Manchu sure came close as dammit on a number of occasions...