Word: mined
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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When the authorities came, the spell started to crumble. Utah highway patrolmen took over, moving people and their cars, organizing the transfer of the wounded to the county hospital. My doctor friend and I climbed back into the car. Within 20 miles the road was mine again, and once again I could use both lanes to swing around the curves...
...service began with a military color guard presenting the flag, and it ended with The Battle Hymn of the Republic. "Mine eyes have seen the glory of the coming of the Lord...
...national political figure, he thinks that he himself has changed a bit. Says he: "I probably have a greater tolerance of opponents. I suppose I learned they weren't an enemy out to do me in. They sincerely believed in their ways as I believe in mine, and so I suppose there is a sort of tolerance I gained in that regard. I don't think I lose my temper quite as quickly as I once...
...Colony Development Operation have already cut 300 yds. into a mountain of shale. Near by, in another canyon, Union Oil engineers monitor a conveyor belt delivering a stream of shale into a giant funnel. Some 40 miles south, at Logan's Wash, Occidental Petroleum miners have cut two mine faces into the sides of a shale mountain. Farther northwest lies another tract of shale land soon to be developed by Gulf Oil and Standard of Indiana...
...making indecent advances. As Capp became more conservative, Li'l Abner's popularity waned, and he was down to 400 subscribing papers at the end. Admitted Capp: "If you have any sense of humor about your strip, and I had a sense of humor about mine, you knew that for three or four years Abner was wrong. Oh hell, it's like a fighter retiring. I stayed on longer than I should have." But by then, his reputation as the Mark Twain Li'l Abner of cartoonists was secure...