Word: mudding
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: all
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...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...
...ferrying four tons of coal from the face of the mine to a conveyor belt. The monotony of the job is numbing. "It's like a yo-yo, all day, back and forth, all day," he says. Sometimes he is two miles within the mountain. Often he kneels in mud and water. He has worked in low- seam coal, a claustrophobic 29 inches from the mine floor to the roof. To eat his dinner, he has had to lie on his back. To relieve himself, he squats in one of the myriad byways. When the day is done, coal dust...
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...