Word: minerally
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Nottinghamshire miner named Harold Larwood caused an international incident in 1933 with "body-line bowling": he tried to knock down Australian batsmen with beanballs, and sometimes succeeded. (The Australian Government complained to Prime Minister Ramsay MacDonald.) There is no foul line, so batsmen can hit in all directions. In placing fielders to take advantage of a batter's weakness, the bowlers can move a man up as close as ten feet from the batsman, in suicidal positions known as "silly leg" and "silly mid on." Cricket moves at less than half the pace of baseball, but-say its partisans...
...Kuehl, editor and publisher of the News-Miner, spent Monday night in Ferry County's finest hotel and Tuesday morning paid a fine of $10 plus $2.50 costs for being drunk and disorderly...
...Miner Thomas Miles told what happened. "I asked my laborer, Charlie Krawiec, what time it was. 'It's 5:45,' says he. Charlie had just put up his watch when the blast came. The props in my place were twisted and blown down. We ran out into the slope and saw several men sprawled around . . . [and] helped them to the foot of the shaft. . . . Boulders as big as kitchen tables had been blown around. . . . Mine cars made of hardwood were blown into splinters. Tracks were twisted. . . . Seven...
...name stuck. Prospector Martin Jorgensen, who went in after gold in 1910, was also found dead. The bones of another prospector, Yukon Fisher, were discovered near a creek in 1928. Three trappers vanished in the valley. In 1945 Woodsman Walter J. Tully came on the body of an Ontario miner, Ernest Savard, in his sleeping bag, his head all but severed...
Going My Way. In Goldthorpe, South Yorkshire, England, coal miner Charles Carter plunged 775 feet down a mine elevator shaft, landed on a descending cage, got off at the bottom of the shaft with only a broken...