Word: minerly
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...might think this makes me bitter, playing digital Salieri to Kinsley's Mozart. But I am a realist. I need Kinsley the same way a coal miner needs his canary. Which is to say, if I see him topple from his perch as an online publisher, I'm dashing for the exit. That's part of the reason I made a point of meeting him for dinner the last time I visited Seattle. I was worried...
...Other friends and relatives trade Jackie tales like essential bits of oral history. They tell about that time when Jackie stole the pickup truck or dynamited the beech tree or bashed in the windshield or held the church congregation hostage. Says Kay's father, Chester Williams, a retired coal miner and preacher: "He felt like he could do anything and get by with...
...Three times since then, he has tried to regain his seat; three times he failed. His patience paid off Tuesday on his 74th birthday as the Republican won the sentimental votes of thousands of Democrats to edge state senator Charlotte Pritt, an honest-to-goodness coal miner's daughter. When inaugurated next year, Underwood will hold the distinction of becoming both the youngest and oldest governors in state history. As he began his first term in 1956, he was a fresh-faced 34-year-old forced to deal with terrible unemployment caused by mechanization of the coal mines. The state...
...iron-ore miner, Oberstar has an unflinching belief in the good of government. He voted against NAFTA, and as a member of the Aviation Subcommittee, he helped arrange KLM's investment in Northwest Airlines and its repair facilities in Duluth and the Iron Range. He parallels his district's conservative values, opposing both gun control and abortion...
Democrats hope that the same Contract with America that helped Cremeans win two years ago--by just two percentage points--will be his undoing this time around: his economically depressed district may not be as excited about fewer government services. But Cremeans, the son of a coal miner and an opponent of abortion and gay rights, says success depends on the individual, and is hoping his mostly working-class constituents still agree...