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...elocution teacher who lived across the street, told him, "Tom, I'm going to vote for you even though you didn't ask me." Surprised, O'Neill replied: "Mrs. O'Brien, I've lived across the street from you for 18 years. I shovel your snow. I didn't think...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Nation: An Apple That Fell Near the Tree | 2/4/1974 | See Source »

...world. They might have been to Vietnam and started smokin there. But one thing they don't like is freaks. They don't like to be considered freaks. They consider freaks lazy. They might have hair down to their assholes, but they're willing to get out and shovel shit and dig ditches. They don't look down on any chore that needs doin...

Author: By Timothy Carlson, | Title: CANNABIS ROAD: The Freakoid Cracker | 2/1/1974 | See Source »

...middle generation is missing because between about 1950 and 1968, the coal industry did not hire new miners. Union President Miller vows that he will not only bargain fiercely for more pay (current average wage: $225 a week), but also let the coal companies know that "the pick and shovel days are over...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: FUEL: Out of the Hole with Coal | 1/28/1974 | See Source »

...journeymen miners now is $92 a week, about what a London secretary makes. They are asking for $112.50. "Forty thousand miners in Britain have black lung," Bill Ball, a miner for 33 years, told TIME'S Skip Gates. "We work on our knees, dig on our knees, and shovel on our knees for an entire shift in a space 2 ft. 9 in. tall. If we have to relieve ourselves, we do it right on the spot. It's dark when we go down into the pits, and it's dark when we come out. That...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The World: The Angry Nottingham Miners | 12/31/1973 | See Source »

...dressed in blue jeans and a sweater and already looking forward to a three-month vacation on the coast of Maine, "hiking, riding-and I may even shovel a little snow." In a relaxed and reflective mood, Archibald Cox talked with TIME Correspondent Hays Gorey about his aborted service as special prosecutor...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Nation: Cox: Ready to Shovel Some Snow | 11/5/1973 | See Source »

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