Word: mined
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...DRINKING: A constituent of mine bought some moonshine liquor and gave a portion to a friend. Sometime thereafter my constituent asked his friend what he thought of the liquor. "Well, it was just right," said the friend...
...little town of Colstrip, a coal mining electric utility, Western Energy, is operating an eleven-acre test reclamation project at a working mine. The company has regraded the land and planted trees and several species of grass for a total cost of $700 an acre, which adds only pennies per ton to the total cost of obtaining coal. But local farmers and ranchers are not convinced, because reclamation is extremely difficult in the semiarid region (average rainfall: 14 in. per year). "If I used as much fertilizer as they did on that test site," says Rancher Wally McRae, "I could...
...GAVE AWAY the ending!" a high school classmate of mine -- the same one who brightened physics classes by inquiring whether electrons were alive -- shrieked indignantly at an English teacher who mentioned that Romeo dies at the end of the play. So I will limit myself to saying that the ending of the Loeb's West Side Story is much better than its beginning...
Gill said she first approached the FBI in early 1967 after talking to some "personal friends of mine in the CIA." She declined to reveal where she met her CIA friends...
...friend Joe Kennedy, LIFE's editorial page gave a narrow endorsement to Nixon. When Luce suggested that, as a Democrat, J.F.K. would naturally adopt a liberal domestic policy, the elder Kennedy seemed surprised. "Harry," he erupted, "you know goddam well no son of mine could ever be a goddam liberal...