Word: mined
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Medicine Bow, Wyo a town of 400 where mine shutdowns have left many residents unemployed, the group received a warm reception and a number of donations...
...walked in quietly and a shoe caught her motherly attention. It was sitting on my bureau in my room, but it wasn't mine. The shoe was black and had at least a six-inch heel. Not knowing that it belonged to one of my roommate's girlfriends, my mom first took a close look at my bed and, noticing that the mess on the matteress held only one inebriated soul, she slowly scowled around the room for that evil being that had corrupted her invaluable son. Not finding anything in the room, she gathered enough courage to open...
...like the confrontation scene between Raymond Massey and James Dean in East of Eden. One of those moments when two worlds from diametrically opposed positions in the universe collide. It was as if I was saying, "That's your future, but it doesn't have to be mine...
...cutting the winter's firewood, the cicada's song fills my head, seems to reverberate inside it. Cicadas, the sun catching their wings and reflecting rainbows, line every tree trunk, every branch. One lights on my shoulder. His broad face with its big red eyes is inches from mine...
...plane taxied down the runway, Ronald and Nancy Reagan went aboard for a private word with the passengers. Captain John Testrake, with a mixture of down-home heartiness and wry understatement, told the President, "Let me take you back here. I want you to meet some good friends of mine." When Reagan entered the cabin, the wife of one of the hostages put down the Bible she had been reading and stood up and applauded. Seven minutes later, the Reagans emerged and waited for the passengers...