Word: mined
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...mine is at Lead (rhymes with bleed), S. Dak., and it is the nation's biggest, most consistently profitable pot of gold. Last year its owner, San Francisco's Homestake Mining Co., extracted a record 628,259 oz. of gold bullion, more than one-third of total U.S. production, sold it to the U.S. Treasury for $22 million at a profit...
...lollote" "celestial pussycat," "joy of Mahomet" and "whiplash of my nerves"; at other times he complained that she had visited him in immodest clothes, told her he would rather see her in a whorehouse than with her mother, and lectured her sternly about his superior philosophical systems ("Mine," he wrote, "are based on reason, and yours are merely the fruit of stupidity"). He was more jovial with his valet Carteron: "Ah: you ancient pumpkin cooked in bugs' juice, third horn of the devil's head, codface drawn out like the two ears of an oyster, slipper...
...South Viet Nam's 37,000 local officials, more than 1,400 of whom were killed or kidnaped last year alone. Nor are officials the only targets. Two weeks ago in Phu Yen province, where Korean and Vietnamese forces are guarding peasants bringing in the rice harvest, two mine explosions killed 54 farm workers riding in a civilian bus. And in Saigon last week, two claymore mines set off near the back gate of the South Vietnamese Armed Forces Headquarters failed in their mission to kill a major military leader, but did kill five soldiers and seven civilian passersby...
...A.F.L.-C.l.O. Amalgamated Clothing Workers Union announced that it would soon seek new contracts, covering some 125,000 workers, that would include wage increases of about 6%. What about me guidelines? Said Union President Jacob Potofsky: "They don't worry us." William A. Boyle, president of the United Mine Workers, said that his union would also demand wage increases in excess of the guidelines. In even more open defiance, Cornelius J. Haggerty, head of the A.F.L.-C.I.O.'s building and construction trades department, pointed out that the guidelines have no legal sanction and, speaking on behalf...
There is a difference between a nightmare and a "nightmare"-the cliche that can be applied to anything from a rescue out of an abandoned mine shaft to unusually bad traffic conditions...