Word: sweated
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Coal mining is tough, dirty, two-fisted business--the most hazardous blue-collar job in the world. The heat that comes out of Boston's radiators and the light that comes from Boston's lamps is the direct product of the sweat of people in Harlan County, Kentucky, or somewhere else in the coalfields that stretch from south Pennsylvania and West Virginia to Alabama and west to Illinois. Once every three days, a man dies in the mines for someone else's heat and light, for someone else's steel...
Once past Mass Ave and into the Yard, there was no sweat. Widener quickly became a blur, and as I'd cut down the path between Sever and Emerson toward the Fogg--which I was in most of the time--I'd wonder why everyone thinks that good weather gives them a license to walk around with half of their clothes...
...missed not a one. This part of the journey--from the Fogg past the GSAS and onto Divinity Ave.--I had affectionately termed Heart Attack Hill. Which is what anyone who saw and knew me got when they spotted my matching tee-shirt, gym shorts and Rene LaCoste sweat socks...
Psyched for another epic battle with the Hanoverians, the city ruggers drew Yale, the perennial league patsies. It was in the bag, right? No sweat, right...
This is a simple point, often made, but so often ignored by some leftist propagandists, who find villainous individuals who live in mansions built with the blood and sweat of others a much easier target then the intangible "system" that nourishes them. This point is important, because the over-simplified "good guy versus bad guy" theory of society only serves to discredit and alienate many people who might otherwise be sympathetic to the left...