Word: miners
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Madeleine was born in 1906 in the shad ow of Montmartre's Sacre-Coeur. The cards were pretty well stacked against her. Father was an ex-coal miner from the provinces who had come to Paris full of self-assurance and wound up as an ill-paid laborer. Mother was a seamstress, a slim country redhead with a profound conviction that life would not hold much...
...From Anheuser-Busch's Prohibition-era near beer of the same name. Clarence's father, a clay miner in Hammondsville, Ohio, drank so much that he was known as "Big Bevo " "Little Bevo" grew so fast that he soon appropriated his father's nickname...
Commissar. Born the son of a miner in the tiny Ukrainian village of Kalinovka, Khrushchev is what the Communists call a Vydvizhenets, one who is "pushed forward." As commissar for metropolitan Moscow, he no longer affects a worker's peaked cap, but still orates in the rough accent of his early years as a shepherd lad and a child laborer in the Czar's coal mines...
...quiet, lazy Sunday morning last October, Jack Bamford, a boy apprentice miner, was awakened in the Bamford cottage in Newthorpe, near Nottingham, by the acrid smell of wood smoke. He roused his dad, who is a miner. They ran downstairs into a roaring fire at the foot of the stairway, and together rescued Mrs. Bamford and three of the children. Then they remembered Brian, 6, and Roy, 4. They were trapped in Jack's back bedroom; and the second floor was in flames. Father wrapped himself in a blanket and tried to rush upstairs, but fell back before...
...apprentice coal miner was the 16sth - and youngest - recipient of the silver medal, Britain's highest honor for noncombatant bravery. "I think it's a bit daft," said Jack. "I didn't really do owt [anything...