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Word: minerly (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 2000-2009
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...made near Pittsburgh, Pa., is set in an "inbred mining town" called Harmony, where, years before, a nut in a miner's suit and mask killed a bunch of high school kids with appropriate tools, mainly a pickax. Now he, or a copycat, is again bloodily reducing the population - as if the Rust Belt didn't have enough problems. The principles here are sheriff Axel Palmer (Kerr Smith), his wife Sarah (horror honey Jaime King) and the mine owner's son Tom Hanniger (Jensen Ackles), who was Sarah's beau back in the previously awful day. To secure...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Mall Cop and Other Disreputable Pleasures | 1/20/2009 | See Source »

...victim gets her face sliced through sideways at the mouth, the head sliding slowly down the shovel, everything from the jaw and below dropping out of frame.) Such are the reductive pleasures of horror movies; they turn viewers into connoisseurs of sadism, co-conspirators with the madman performing his miner atrocities. It's what we're here for, right...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Mall Cop and Other Disreputable Pleasures | 1/20/2009 | See Source »

...Judson H. Miner, a Chicago civil rights lawyer who hired Obama out of law school, recalled his first encounter with the future senator...

Author: By Peter F. Zhu, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: Obama's Quiet Harvard Roots | 11/2/2008 | See Source »

...little trouble re-entering the practice of law,” Miner said of the time after he left his position as the head of Chicago’s legal department. “So I was reading every newspaper that came near me, and I saw an article about this black dude—this all turned out to be completely wrong factually—born in the ghettos of Chicago, raised in the slums, who got to Harvard Law School, became president of the Harvard Law Review, and was coming to Chicago to join a silk-stocking...

Author: By Peter F. Zhu, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: Obama's Quiet Harvard Roots | 11/2/2008 | See Source »

...truth of the matter is that, this fellow is incredibly talented and he’s like a magnet,” Miner said. “When he landed in Chicago, there were lots of people that wanted to meet...

Author: By Peter F. Zhu, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: Obama's Quiet Harvard Roots | 11/2/2008 | See Source »

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