Word: minerally
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Impossible Job. Then Alex Morden, a miner, bashed in one invader's head with his pickax. The invaders asked Mayor Orden to sentence him, to preserve order. The Mayor said he would, if the invaders would shoot the 20 men who killed the loose-hung soldiers. Then Colonel Lanser, who really knew what war is, smiled a little sadly. "We really have taken on a job, haven't we?" he said. "Yes," said the Mayor, "the one impossible job in the world, the one thing that can't be done." "And that is?" "To break...
Everything, it seems at first, is in this book; such ghoulish, semi-slang tintypes as "God's image cut in ebony" (for Negro); such beautifully graphic trade terms as the miner's "snow" (for the sifting of earth presaging a cave-in), the ballplayer's "floater" (for a slow ball), the prostitute's "pivot" (for solicitation from a window). Practically all the unmailable words turn up, along with a tremendous set of their variants and embellishments. So does the surrealist language of drug addicts, the high-heeled dialect of perverts, the likable archaisms of lumberjacks (they...
...Corn Is Green (TIME, Dec. 9, 1940). The warm story of the education of a talented Welsh miner, with Ethel Barrymore playing teacher...
...Panther halfback Edgar ("Special Delivery") Jones, son of a Welsh coal miner. In the first quarter, Jones threw a daring 28-yard pass that set up one touchdown. In the last quarter, with the Rams trying desperately to tie the score, Jones intercepted a pass, streaked 30 yards for a second touchdown and a 13-to-0 victory that blasted Fordham's dreams of a Rose Bowl bid. It was the first time Fordham had failed to score since...
...Your interest is different. You want the same as the worker in France, as the miner in Wales, the same as the Russian peasant and the stevedore in the port of Tripoli. You want peace, you want to live on your hands' work, and not at the cost of freedom and happiness of other peoples. You want to take part in determining your own fate, and you want to contribute your part in order that your children will find a better world than that you are leaving...