Word: mined
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Among the most militant of the striking mine workers are the 25,000 members of District 17. Many of them live in the vicinity of Cabin Creek Hollow, a group of small frame houses and mobile homes along a narrow, twisting road in the hills of southern West Virginia. On the eve of the strike last December, a Cabin Creek miner defiantly told TIME Correspondent Robert Wurmstedt that he and his neighbors were prepared to stay out of the pits until "she freezes over." Last week Wurmstedt revisited the hollow and found that 2½ months without paychecks has caused...
...necessarily connote material possessions which "spoil" a child--a child can be spoiled and not necessarily feel that everything in the world belongs to them--but entitlement is an attitude passed down through the generations, from parent to child, which prompted the seven-year-old son of an Appalachian mine-owner to make the following observation after a mine explosion...
...know, there's an explosion. It's too bad. I guess there are a lot of kids who are praying hard for their fathers. I wish God was nice to everyone. He's been very good to us. My Daddy says it's been hard work, running the mine and another one he has. It is just as hard to run a mine as it is to go down and dig coal. I'm glad my father is the owner though. I wouldn't want him to get killed or hurt bad down there, way underground. Daddy has given...
...unlike many of their more affluent sisters in other regions. More than half of the Appalachian women live in rural areas; most of the 29 per cent who work outside the home have only a tenth grade education and hold low-playing jobs. Three years ago, however, the United Mine Workers opened coal mining jobs to women, and these jobs pay more than most available to rural people. In Daugherty's view, the economic advantages of mining jobs for women outweigh their drawbacks. "It is dangerous, but many women will do it out of sheer economic necessity. They...
...joints, in all the towns, in all the world, and she walks into mine...