Word: mined
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...love with a phrase. Some times he treats the past with a lovely disrespect. At the catacombs in Syracuse, 'there was an unhealthy-looking monk on duty at the picture-postcard stall. He looked as if he had just been disinterred himself." As for the catacombs, "a coal mine would have offered the same spectacle, really...
...poet. Archconservatives on the village council, which oversees the play, rejected that plan at the time of the 1970 pageant. To meet growing international protests, however, the council toned down some of the most offensive lines. No longer did the High Priest Caiaphas say of Jesus, "It would delight mine eyes to see/ his body torn by wild beasts...
...assignments, and some of these are involved in the ore walkout. But the big issue is a miners' demand that they collect incentive payments for increased production, as 85,000 workers in steel mills do. To U.S.W. officials in Pittsburgh, who gave their permission for locals at twelve mines to strike, whether any particular mill or mine grants incentive payments is a local issue, unrelated to the general wage level set by national contracts negotiated under ENA. To the companies, that argument is sophistry: in their view the miners simply want bigger raises than were granted by the national...
...nothin' short of dyin'/ Half as lonesome as a sound/ On the sleeping city sidewalk;/ Sunday mornin' comin' down." And blunt about sex: "There ain't nothing sweeter than naked emotions/ So you show me yours, hon, and I'll show you mine...
With his characteristic self-parodying wit, Nabokov once said: "I have never seen a more lucid, more lonely, better-balanced mad mind than mine." It was the mind of an exile imprisoned in memories of a culture swept away by revolution and war. Born April 23, 1899, into an intellectual, upper-class St. Petersburg family, Nabokov enjoyed the benefits of wealth, position and a Western European education. English was his first language, taught by an English nanny. French and Russian were learned, as he said, "at my nurses' knees-two nurses, four knees." His mother encouraged his early poetic...