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Word: mined (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1970-1979
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...even without his stetson, Jones seems to have sprung from a Marlboro ad. In fact this quintessential Texan-moving slowly, talking slowly, even smiling slowly -was born in Albuquerque. From 13 on, he worked as a janitor, a cattle weigher, a powderman in a Colorado mine, a highway surveyor, a truck driver, a uranium prospector...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: THE SOUTH - THEATER: TexasTripIe Play | 9/27/1976 | See Source »

...eyes really have it with this mayor. As I walked up to greet him that afternoon, those eyes met mine, then glanced back over my shoulder, then back to my eyes. Rather than just stand and chat, Al grabbed my arm and walked, ever so slowly, with me in tow along the path he would have taken if I had never even come along. We must have looked like those Italian men who stroll, arm in arm, across the ancient bridges or along the boulevards of any Italian town; very relaxed, yet somehow infused with purpose, even if that purpose...

Author: By Henry Griggs, | Title: Al Vellucci: Pepperoni and homemade wine | 9/24/1976 | See Source »

Professor Williams, on the other hand, has a much more favorable reaction to dealing with ORC. "They have handled their side and I have handled mine. They give me prompt cooperation in preparing applications for grants," he says. "I'm reasonably happy with the situation...

Author: By Marc M. Sadowsky, | Title: Fighting cavities with M&M's | 9/24/1976 | See Source »

...talking aides below? Why, in the city of the Adamses and co. is the City Council filled with the likes of Hicks and anti-everything councilman Albert "Dapper" O'Neil, a man who openly brags about the handgun he packs, whose reactionary voting record a native Bostonian friend of mine calls "one bizarre package," and who himself until recently referred to Hicks as his "steady girl...

Author: By Mark T. Whitaker, | Title: Not quite the same old song | 9/24/1976 | See Source »

...then worship it for a while. A 19th century example: Herman Melville's attempt at "narcissistic merger" with Nathaniel Hawthorne. Melville wrote Hawthorne: "By what right do you drink from my flagon of life? And when I put it to my lips-lo, they are yours and not mine...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Behavior: Narcissus Redivivus | 9/20/1976 | See Source »

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