Word: mined
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...event, I told him that his Harvard pick notwithstanding, there was little chance of him going even 3-1, as one of his selections, Penn over Princeton, differed from mine, and would thus be incorrect...
...when Hobie is cutting and stepping on the gridiron people scratch their heads and wonder when it was they ever saw a white boy run so fast. Not at all like his daddy, Hunter, a quiet fellow who works the evening shift down in the black shaft of mine No. 7--Hunter who lost his wife a few years ago to cervical cancer, contracted, she was sure, because she had committed the sin of enjoying sex too much. Hunter had been slow on the football field, if a sure tackler, and as he gets up around 50 he's even...
...TIME IN THE BOOK is 1969, and the story takes place against the events that colored that sad year. Hunter McNatt leaves West Virginia just after he and others start their efforts to replace the corrupt United Mine Workers president Tony Boyle with Joseph Yablonski, one of their...
...back finally caved in, and the doctor said any man who works 46 years in a mine, mill or construction job, as I have, deserves a rest. So I retired on 80% Social Security and a small carpenter's pension. Millions of Americans work very hard for their money and are glad to retire at 65 or earlier...
...cautioned Author Norman Mailer, a self-described "Algonquin freak." Playwright Marc Connelly, 86, the only Round Table regular on hand for the party, obviously felt up to the challenge. Asked if the conversation was as lively now as it was in the old days, Connelly answered without a pause: "Mine...