Word: minerly
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...deaths. For Logan County -- and for much of Appalachia -- coal has been a blessing and a curse. It provided generations with work, solid wages, a source of immense pride and a tax base for schools, hospitals and roads. But the mines have exacted a high price in return. Many miners spend their lives crawling on their hands and knees in tunnels sometimes no higher than a yardstick, wading through mud and water, burrowing through unutterable darkness. Nearly every miner can name a friend or family member who has been killed, maimed or stricken with black lung disease. "You die quick...
...than coal. But the most popular courses in the school are those on mining. One is taught by David Thompson, 33, who went into the mines at 18. "The only thing I could see was dollar signs," he recalls. For the next eight years, the 6-ft. 3-in. miner worked in spaces little more than 3 ft. high. "I was on my knees eight hours a day -- crawling, bending, twisting," says Thompson. By age 27, his knees couldn't take it anymore. Since then he has had six operations on his knees and all the cartilage removed...
...Bush administrations for favoring the rich and harming the less affluent, he sings from the standard party hymnal. But when Harkin gets personal, he deftly exploits the politics of roots and resentment. He is the son of a Slovene immigrant mother who died young and an Iowan coal miner who never got to high school. In attacking the patrician President he keenly dislikes, Harkin can make the incumbent's very name sound odious...
...dial. No such fragmentation of images was built into the culture of France or Germany in the 1920s. The relations between image and thing seemed solid. Here was something to overturn, and collage was the lever. Ernst fell on the common vein of reproductory images like a miner discovering a virgin reef...
According to a contemporaneous article in the Washington Post, the accident killed 17-year-old Amy Edgerton, a friend and passenger in a black Toyota truck driven by Kerrigan. In the article, Capt. Ronald Miner, Fairfax county police traffic division commander, speculated that alcohol was a factor in the accident...