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Neither Wingrove nor his brother "Peach," 36, was dissuaded from mining because of their father's death in a mine fire in 1966. Although Peach was disabled for a year after a roof fall, he still works the mines, and today he lives fairly well. To supplement his income of about $12,000 last year and to help save for retirement, his wife works in an enamelware plant. Last summer the couple and their three teen-age daughters vacationed in their travel trailer for two weeks at South Carolina beaches. "Mining's getting better," says Peach. "I know...
...corner, this son of a shoe-factory clerk from Leicester, watching the Old Parties of British aristocracy come and go, fretting over the State of the World, then settling down to a civilized meal as if it were their last: "Decanters on tables, lights beaming off cutlery and peach-fed cheeks...
...present century, Oliver Wendell Holmes's legal opinions are preserved as models of lucidity for undergraduates writing essays on admissions applications. T.S. Eliot articulated the equivocations that would plague a later generation when he inquired, "Do I dare top eat a peach?" And John Kennedy, a paragon of the man holding the reigns of power, advocated no starry-eyed idealism but a more tangible ethic that sanctioned the sending of troops to Vietnam and the Bay of Pigs...
Ford's favorite dessert is pecan ice cream with fresh peach slices that Haller likes to marinate in Grand Marnier. For the President there are no seconds, except on salads, for which he has a consuming passion, particularly when they are perked up with finely chopped onion-whose breathy aroma is not likely to promote many postprandial...
...told reporters: "We finally have achieved a peach with honor. I know it gags some of you to write that phrase, but it is true...