Word: mud
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...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 or you die slow," says Hassell Butcher, chief of Logan County's tax department...
Business has also been slow for Marc Johnson, proprietor of Mud Man, a craft shop specializing in "interplanetary pottery...
Without advertising, Johnson relies primarily on curious local passers-by for business, but cannot afford to make Mud Man the sole source of support for his family...
...frequent guest on TV talk shows, writes for the Washington Post's Sunday magazine and Outlook section. On Oct. 10, the newspaper's op-ed page carried an influential column labeled "Open Season on Clarence Thomas," in which Williams accused some Judiciary Committee staff members of desperately seeking "mud" to block the nominee. Not until five days later did Post readers learn that Williams was facing charges of verbal sexual harassment filed by female employees of the newspaper...
...confrontation. For both Hill and Thomas, it was the hardest ordeal of their lives. But one of them was shouldering the burden unfairly -- and it may never be known which one. While both had been sullied and injured by the proceedings, only one had been dragged through the mud on the strength of a very convincing...