Word: miners
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Haught, 27 years a miner and brother-in-law of one of the missing men, complained that the mine was "filled with gas" and "something was bound to happen." Tony Boyle, president of the United Mine Workers lo cal, demurred. "This happens to be one of the better companies as far as safety is concerned," he said. "I share the grief. But as long as we mine coal, there is always this inherent danger of explosion." For relatives of the missing miners, huddled in their parked pickup trucks or on folding chairs in the grimy company store, that was scant...
...coal mines," Oravetz said. "My old man couldn't play ball, so he was a coal miner all his life. Now he's blind from working in those mines. That's why you don't catch me bitching too much about not making the big leagues. Hell, I'm lucky...
Conglomerate Miner. In 1959, the firm added "Mining" to its name in order to reflect newer operations that now account for 65% of its revenues. "Mining is our upward thrust," says Littlefield. The thrust started when Utah decided to adapt its earth-moving skills to open-pit mining projects. It has since become, in effect, a conglomerate miner...
...have collected 30,000 signatures, they are invited to the office of the foreign ministry to have tea and cake-and discuss government policy. At a meeting in the city of Moravská Ostrava, Czechoslovak intellectuals face an audience of workers and their families for a political debate. A miner shouts: "Wasn't there anything good in the past?" More timidly, but no less urgently, a bespectacled young girl rises to ask: "Why can't we see the film Doctor Zhivago...
Androcles (Gene Troobnick) and his wife Megaera (Jan Miner) enter and prove well cast indeed. Miss Miner's role is a short one, but she is properly attractive, ample, and shrewish. Curly headed Troobnick, imported by the Festival just for this role, fits to perfection Shaw's prescription of "a small, thin, ridiculous little man." He has no trouble convincing us of his great love of animals, and is wholly at home in Shaw's amusing baby-talk (such as "Did um get an awful thorn into um's tootsums wootsums?"). The extraction of the thorn from the Lion...