Word: mined
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Looking for the trail, Sammy Joe Chapman and Johnny Newburg headed upriver with two fresh dogs: Sandy and Little Red, a pair of 14-month-old females. The hounds quickly picked up Ray's trail. In a fury, they took off up the river toward the Cumberland strip mine...
...Communist-supplied weapons, mainly Soviet, were still wrapped in their wooden packing crates-a reminder of the fresh arsenals flowing into the frontline states. Among the prize exhibits was a deadly 14.5-mm. antiaircraft gun with glistening gold-and red-tipped bullets. There was also a Czech-made land mine of Bakelite, undetectable with any of the usual metal devices used by the army. Like the other arms on display, the weapons were newer than the Rhodesians' equipment...
...union's falling apart. We've got no unity, no leadership. We're at the mercy of management. If you vote for me, I'll make the union great again." Having delivered that pitch, Harry Patrick, one of three candidates for president of the United Mine Workers, wipes the sweat from his brow and circles the spartan bathhouse of the Eccles mine near Beckley, W. Va., looking for another hand to shake. The miners, encrusted with coal dust and bathed in the harsh glare of mercury-vapor lamps, eye him as they change shifts at midnight...
...caught up in a seemingly endless series of wildcat strikes, the U.M.W. has reached the brink of disintegration-just when President Carter's energy policy calls for a two-thirds increase in coal production by 1985. If the election fails to produce peace and competent leadership for the mine workers, the forthcoming coal boom could well bust the union. Companies will either start negotiating contracts at a local, rather than national level, or simply turn to nonunion mines. Non-U.M.W. mines already provide 40% of the nation's coal...
Personal Abuse. All three have run their campaigns on shoestring budgets with limited staffs out of dilapidated headquarters in West Virginia. Seeking to shake hands at shift-change times, they often must show up at one mine at midnight, at another many miles away eight hours later, at a third in midafternoon. Their campaigns have consisted largely of personal abuse. Patrick accuses Miller of wasting union funds by spending excessive time at a motel in Charleston instead of going to his home 30 miles away; he is careful to go no further than that. Miller says that Patrick lost...