Word: mined
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...battleship Maine mysteriously exploded and sank in Havana Harbor, where it had gone to protect American lives during the Cuban revolt against Spanish rule. Out of 354 men aboard the Maine, 260 died. Though the Spanish denied any responsibility, jingoistic U.S. newspapers charged that a Spanish mine had caused the explosion. "Destruction of the Maine was the work of an enemy," charged William Randolph Hearst's newly founded New York Journal as it offered a $50,000 reward for conviction of whoever had done the deed. Scarcely two months later, the U.S. declared war on Spain...
...preface to a 173-page book entitled How the Battleship Maine Was Destroyed, which is based on a resurvey of the evidence by two prominent Navy scientists, Rickover argues that there is no sign of the kind of "rupture or deformation which would have resulted from a contact mine." What did cause the blast? Probably, says Rickover, a spontaneous combustion of bituminous coal in the Maine's fuel hold, and then an explosion of its ammunition...
COAL. The illegal, four-week strike of 110,000 of the nation's coal miners was finally drawing to a close. After 200 local union presidents of the United Mine Workers cast their votes for a return to work, the miners were expected to go back to the pits early this week, ending one of the most foolish strikes in the U.M.W.'s history...
...purity. This had forced me to repress my fantasy, and I needed a big burst." Besides, Yves considers himself the last truly creative designer around. "A collection is always a reaction to something," he observes. "I was fed up with opening magazines and seeing clothes that I thought were mine but had in fact been done by somebody else. I made a decision to make a dramatic departure...
...mill on a famous salmon stream, the river Wye that coils its way between Wales and England; and there, more English now than the English, he played the country gentleman. "It leaves me cold," he told an interviewer in the early 1920s, "that men should write better novels than mine. But I hate a man who can kill more fish...