Word: coalfield
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...like to think they did it. We may never know. Yet Glick's last words to his wife Lyzbeth, like Burnett's vow of action to his wife, make us want to believe they prevailed, taking Flight 93 down in a Pennsylvania coalfield far from any metropolis. "We're going to rush the hijackers," said Glick. Then he put down the phone. --By Josh Tyrangiel...
...success of such a petition, but one cannot easily halt the trend towards an industrial-type confrontation. Harvard becomes a factory, Teaching Fellows become machine operators, the undergraduates become sausages and the administration the evil board of directors. My great-great-grandfather, who organized the miners on the Radstock coalfield, must be turning in his grave at the sorry use to which the noble principles for which he fought are to be put by the newborn Teaching Fellows' Federation. It opted last night for a long, ineffective and unrepresentative life, rather than one which promised to be short, useful, fair...
...Several miles away, on the worn-out coalfield fringe of Birmingham, two young Negro brothers, James and Virgil Ware, were riding a bicycle. Virgil, 13, was sitting on the handle bars. A motor scooter with two 16-year-old white boys aboard approached from the opposite direction. James Ware, 16, told what happened then: "This boy on the front of the bike turns and says something to the boy behind him, and the other reaches in his pocket and he says Pow! Pow! with a gun twice. Virgil fell and I said, get up Virgil, and he said...
...about evolution some years before Origin of Species was published, and in the five years after it exploded on the world (in 1859), Huxley exploded with it by issuing 46 major publications on subjects ranging from the fishes of the Devonian epoch to the New Labyrinthodonts from the Edinburgh coalfield. With a "basilisk artistry" on the lecture platform and "a certain ruthlessness," Huxley loved to bandy texts and split hairs with the theologians. He signed letters in mock church Latin, was "Father-in-Science" to disciples, and called himself the episcopophagous (bishop-eating) Huxley. When "Soapy Sam" Wilberforce, Bishop...
Middlesex-born Vicar Strong first took up his double life during World War II, when he served a village near Dover as vicar and simultaneously worked as a coalfield pitman. Hampered by unenthusiastic superiors and sheer exhaustion. Strong had to quit for a while, but in 1955 he took a job as an oil-meter checker in a factory, was appointed curate in Harlington, and won the backing of his bishop...