Word: mined
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...These students do not deserve to be tolerated, to be excused," Moise continued. "They deserve our admiration, and they certainly have mine...
...media are electricity, wind, gas, fire, smoke and movement. "There is one essential difference between Gothic cathedrals and rockets: a cathedral seems to soar, expressing the yearning of its builders to ascend to heaven; a rocket does soar. The same technical difference exists between traditional sculpture and my objects. Mine don't merely express something. They are something...
Yablonski's father was murdered last January after an unsuccessful attempt to unseat the incumbent president of the United Mine Workers of America...
...miners went to the union and pleaded for leadership. There wasn't any. The dust was thick in the mines: nobody seemed to care. Then, in May, 1968, 25 men were trapped for ten days in a mine at Hominy Falls: Four died. The rest came out, in a spectacular resence heavily covered by the national press. Suddenly people were aware ? a little-of hard times in the mines. And West Virginia miners were getting together to form the Black Lung Association. They covered the state, working with Dr. Buff and building up organizational strength...
Finally the miners fought back. In mid-February, 1969. Raleigh County miners walked out of their mines and vowed not to go back until a new law had been passed. The picket signs were simple: "No law, no work." Editorials condemned the miners: union spokesmen said the wild?a? strike was being led by "men who haven't mined coal in 20 years" and told the coal operators not to worry: "the boys'll be back on the job tomorrow." Tomorrow came and went and the boys stayed home, more of them every day, until the strike was statewide. Thousands...