Word: mined
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...could refuse to sell these materials. South Africa holds 84% of the world's known reserves of chromium, which is essential in the production of stainless steel and superalloys used in the defense, aerospace, chemical and power-generation industries. Private stocks of chromium in the U.S., which does not mine the ore, would last only a few months. South Africa has 81% of the world's platinum and its closely related metals, which are needed for many explosives and fertilizers and are essential in electronic equipment and the clean-up devices for automobile exhausts. The U.S. could get along...
Berger strengthens his arguments with vivid prose. No windy academic generalities here. He likes sudden beginnings: "The day before yesterday a close friend of mine killed himself by blowing his brains out." He describes Albrecht Durer's view of the Apocalypse as the day when "the sun would go out, and the heavens would be rolled up and put away like a manuscript." He reports that the mosques of Istanbul are "the colour of ripe honeydew melons." He encapsulates a special quality in Bonnard's art by calling it "an art about cultivating one's own garden...
These lines from America the Beautiful were doubtless sung at many a Protestant service over the July 4 weekend, along with the verses of another warhorse, the Battle Hymn of the Republic ("Mine eyes have seen the glory . . ."). But at least one group of church officials has deemed these traditional words unfit for use in worship. Earlier this year a committee preparing a new hymnal for the United Methodist Church voted to delete the lines from the volume. Native Americans, they feared, might take offense at a verse extolling the white man's exploits in the wilderness. And the Battle...
...J.N.D. Kelly, an Anglican priest who has served as principal at Oxford's St. Edmund Hall and as canon of Chichester Cathedral, as well as chairman of the Archbishop of Canterbury's commission on Roman Catholic relations. His dictionary is correspondingly scholarly, cautious, meticulous, yet still a rich mine of arcane nuggets...
...current troubles are behind the almost palpable increase in white unease. In some rural areas, particularly in the Limpopo River valley near the Zimbabwe border, white farmers have formed home guard, or "commando," units, while the army sweeps the roads for mines at least twice a day. Many farmers in the area have built high security fences or walls around their homes, and all are connected by shortwave radio. One such farmer, Johan de Villiers, wears a Beretta pistol wherever he goes on his 2,000-acre spread. Two of his four sons are now farmers, and one of them...