Word: mined
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Last month, 177 Black workers died in a gold-mine fire, caused by the unsafe working conditions. An acetylene cylinder exploded, forcing workers to scramble out of the deep underground tunnels for safety...
...shelling intensifies and grows more accurate, however, the mujahedin who are not part of the gun crews decide to move to safer ground. They scamper west along the ridge, then start down the long, steep slopes, moving fast. One guerrilla is missing a foot, blown off by an antipersonnel mine a year ago. He moves as fast as the others, hopping nimbly with the aid of a walking stick...
...very accessible dream: "I saw the body of a hanged man dangling from the arm of a scaffold on a hill. When the wind caused the corpse to turn in the air, I saw that it was my face -- rotted and picked by the birds, but obviously mine. And then the corpse opened its eyes and looked at me." Permutations of both incidents would turn up in books two decades later...
...greased, Tabitha stopped smelling like an overgrown cruller, and the six-figure earnings soon became seven. "People think the muse is a literary character," says King, "some cute little pudgy devil who floats around the head of the creative person sprinkling fairy dust. Well, mine's a guy with a flattop in coveralls who looks like Jack Webb and says, 'All right, you son of a bitch, time to get to work.' " The ultimate workaholic obeyed the figure in coveralls every day, except for his birthday, the Fourth of July and Christmas. His work reflected more than the normal number...
Racially motivated violence, in the meantime, showed no sign of ending, as evidenced by a bombing in a Johannesburg hotel and continued unrest in the townships. Two memorial services were held for the 177 miners who died in the Kinross gold-mine disaster a fortnight ago. On a soccer field near the scene of the accident, where 3,000 miners had assembled for the ceremony, several hundred black protesters surrounded the pulpit. One man, a steward of the black National Union of Mineworkers, shouted through a handheld loudspeaker, "We are not going to pray with whites today. We've never...