Word: pining
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...murky depths of the Scotia Coal Company's No. 1 Black Mountain Mine, 108 men were at work one morning last week. Suddenly, four miles from the tunnel's entrance, a violent methane-gas explosion ripped through a passageway, shaking the pine-studded mountains of Oven Fork in southeastern Kentucky. Nine men died instantly. Six others survived the blast for a time with their portable air units. But apparently thinking their way out was blocked, the six shielded themselves from fumes with pieces of canvas and awaited rescuers; they were found dead of suffocation...
...secrets. The country is a wide-open highway into Belgium, France and West Germany-less than an hour's drive from U.S. bases in Germany and only two hours from NATO headquarters in Brussels. Most of Luxembourg's borders are untended even by customs officials, and its pine forests offer thousands of safe passageways to anyone who wants to saunter into another country. Those forests also function as hiding places for the "dead-letter boxes" that spies use to pass information...
...location in nearby Godfrey, Eichen and his fellow film makers-un-supervised by a teacher because the filming took place during vacation-taped a half-inch-thick piece of soft pine to Nilsson's chest. Then, as the 8-mm. camera whirred, a"pusher" knocked Nilsson to the ground with faked blows of a club...
...Yeah, I think so. It doesn't feel too good. Let's hurry up." When the filming ended, he tried to get up but fell backward and passed out. His friends noticed that the simulated blood was suddenly turning darker. They ripped off his shirt and the pine board and saw a purplish hole in his chest. Rushed to St. Joseph's Hospital in Alton, Nilsson lay in a coma for nine days. Last week he died...
Inside the glazed lobby of an office building at 88 Pine Street in downtown Manhattan, another Manhattan has been hatched: a florid, jaunty and raucous chick, quite like its big mother...