Word: mined
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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HOFFA NEVER could make the distinction, Murray Kempton wrote, between mine and thine--for all his right-wing bullshit (rapists should be lined up against the wall and shot, "the sons of bitches") he's a working class rebel. George Meany and Leonard Woodcock seem to like argument and accomodation with presidents and corporate bosses. Jimmy preferred to pound people who got in his way--and men who drive trucks and work in mills like Jimmy's method better...
What was going on was a 13-month old strike by a recently recreated local of the United Mine Workers of America...
Arnold Miller's UMW reform administration was up against its first great test, and it was widely acknowledged that if the "new UMW" could succeed in re-organizing a mine in Harlan County--for 15 years the stronghold of murderer and corrupt UMW president W.A. (Tony) Boyle--it could succeed anywhere. Reformer Jock Yablonski had feared to campaign there in 1969. The Boyle henchmen who slayed Yablonski, his wife and his daughter in their beds had done the bidding of District 19 officials...
Cantankerous friends of mine, bummed out by the "issues of the day," have invented their own. They've been to El Paso and know west Texas like the back of this month's Playmate, and they swear that they've seen the sand dune Neil Armstrong stepped out onto that historic day in July 1969. "Backdrops and mock-ups," they say. "No way anybody could ever get to the moon. It was all staged out there in Texas...
...ballpark early (10 a.m.), before the gates were even open. Between the Kenmore subway stop and the bleacher gates, Sam, a friend of mine who had come all the way from South Carolina to watch the game, had already bought two Red Sox hats, a pennant, a bumper sticker, a coke and a Fenway frank. He was also appropriately dressed in a Bosox red sweater and navy blue pants. He did withstand the temptation to get the other items being sold, which ranged from buttons with a picture of the gold dust twins (Lynn and Rice) to a World Series...