Word: mined
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...fact, some marginal coal mines will probably close down rather than comply with the strict standards set by the new Federal Coal Mine Health and Safety Act, which is aimed at stopping "black lung" disease among miners. There is also a shortage of cheap coal with a sufficiently low sulfur content to reduce air pollution. The cleanest fuel, natural gas, is so hard to come by that the Midwest's biggest buyer, Commonwealth Edison, has now begun to burn its winter stocks of coal to supply Chicago with power. Even domestic oil is getting more expensive, and there seems...
...yield properties, including a hotel and department store in Essen, the Krupps' soot-filled home city. The Krupp truck plant, which lost $7,500,000 in its last year of operation, was closed. Coal production, long a loser, was reduced-and the last wholly-owned Krupp mine was sold off last year...
...Meredith's case, the style was truly the reflection of the man. For all his sermons against the sin of pride, he was an egoist writing about egoism. Thus the modern reader of his books is nearly suffocated by the presence of Mine Host, nudging, lecturing, possessed, as the novelist himself confessed, by the "cursed desire to show the reason." Nonetheless, it was Meredith's "splendid vanity," concludes Pritchett, that gave him the strength to put his contradictions on the line and struggle to resolve them. That, for Meredith, was what it meant to write a novel...
...COULD say many things about Lukas Foss, but none of them would be to the point. I could talk about his compositions, or his conducting, or the day he locked himself out of Sanders and some friends of mine and I had to let him in through the basement, but nothing would reach the heart of the matter. Foss will be teaching at Harvard next year, and maybe a year from now I'll understand him. It's hard...
...like a tight-fitting hat, his face pale, his eyes drawn tight almost in a squint. When people see the body they remark that the undertaker has done a good job, for you can hardly tell that Anthony had the side of his face shot away when a land mine exploded, and that the doctors in the Army surgical unit who tried to operate on the poor wounded mass of red and stinking meat were themselves sickened at the sight of such disfigurement. So they put him on ice, sent a telegram home, and shipped him to the top floor...