Word: minerally
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Kept on ice for two weeks at congressional expense had been Harry Miner, a French Canadian whose profession is to smuggle babies across the U.S. border for adoption (at a price) in the U.S. But Miner had jumped the gun on the hearings, with a North American Newspaper Alliance description of his activities. After this happened, Kefauver received a chin-up note from one of his staffers: "Estes, at first blush this sounds bad, but it really is not. It will steal a little thunder, but at the same time it will really 'boom' our hearings...
...Harry Miner proved to be a singularly unrepentant witness. When asked to explain his smuggling activities, he roared indignantly: "You call bringing in a baby smuggling? That's giving a baby a home!" Even Estes Kefauver did not find an answer for that sentiment. But the hearings were by no means a total loss, since Kefauver managed to wind up with a virtuous line: "It's certainly a fine thing for kids to know about the Ten Commandments...
Homemade Ballad. One night in the Bucket of Blood saloon at Virginia City, Nev., Emrich heard a miner bellow, "Who shot Maggie in the freckle?" Back to his room he went to compose a ballad of his own that was eventually brought back to him from Australia as an original...
Pulling a manuscript from one pocket and glasses from another, he planted his feet widely and started reading in his loud, cocky miner's voice. "Dear Comrade Tito . . . and leaders of the Yugoslav Communist League," he bawled. Instantly, Tito's handsome features froze...
...portal" bus, designed by Lee-Norse Co., to cut the time a miner spends traveling from the surface to the mine's working area (for which he gets paid). The 90 minutes which miners now average riding into the mines on the same string of cars used to haul out coal, can be cut to 50 minutes by the bus. Price...