Word: penniless
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...piled high outside the mines as production outsped the expansion of uranium refineries. One of the biggest stacks of ore lies outside the rich ($60 million in proved reserves) Mi Vida mine of Charles Steen, the onetime oil geologist who discovered Mi Vida when he was almost penniless, thereby touched off southeast Utah's first big uranium strike (TIME...
...Lawrence had come upon hard times. The former colonel who was esteemed by such men as Winston Churchill and George Bernard Shaw was discouraged, dissatisfied with himself, and, by his own account, penniless. Perhaps, he reasoned, a hitch in the R.A.F. would give him peace of mind. It is doubtful that restless, unstable T. E. Lawrence ever found peace of mind, but the notes he took in barracks became a book whose history is as odd as his own bizarre career. The Mint was finished in India in 1928 (Lawrence had been discharged from the R.A.F., enlisted in the Tank...
...Girl? The plot's pretty problem: Zdenka, younger sister in a penniless noble family, has been raised as a boy for economy's sake (a boy's upbringing is so much cheaper). But Zdenka has lost her unboyish heart to Sister Arabella's best beau, Matteo. Fortunately, Arabella falls for a handsome stranger and Zdenka lures Matteo to her room, leading him to believe he is getting Arabella. Since the handsome stranger overhears (and misunderstands) this plot, things look pretty bad for a while. Zdenka finally clears everything up by appearing as the woman she really...
Echoes on Granite. It took less than two years for Painter Gauguin to become a homeless, penniless beggar...
...getting away. Among other things, Mammy was a madame who lavishly entertained in her elegant house (it cost $10 for a caller even to be considered for admission). Mammy's partner in many financial ventures was the fabulous Thom as Frederick Bell, who arrived in the West penniless and rose to the throne of Quicksilver King. In the end, when Mammy and Bell quarreled, she pushed him over a staircase railing to his death (the murder was never proved against Mammy before she died in 1904 at the age of 87). Author Holdredge's solidly researched story suffers...