Word: mining
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Dates: during 1990-1990
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Aronson, 44, grew up in a middle-class home in Rye, N.Y. After graduating from the University of Chicago, he became a VISTA volunteer in Kentucky. He later worked to overthrow the corrupt administration of United Mine Workers President W.A. (Tony) Boyle and then, back in Kentucky, he helped win a landmark coalworkers contract in 1974 -- an effort immortalized in the film Harlan County, U.S.A...
Last week, after two whites were killed in a clash between demonstrating black workers and white security officials at a nearby gold mine, Vlok sent extra police and a military backup into Welkom, saying that vigilante action was "unnecessary." Black South Africans can only hope that the A.W.B. is listening...
...first met at the apartment of a friend of mine on Aug. 26, 1968. With his lively blue eyes and ruddy beard, his tongue-twistingly fast speech delivered in an unexpected treble and his deliberate, precise gestures, he seemed an animated concentration of purposeful energy...
...prudes, wimps and the squeamish" mentioned in Joseph Enis' loving homage to that aural atrocity known as heavy metal (May 11), I have little to say in self-defense except that I seem to know a tad more about his favorite music than he seems to know about mine. For example...
...circle of my gunsight. I squeezed the trigger, and felt the stutter of the machine guns and watched the plane belch smoke. The world was in color again; the G-forces had receded; my stomach was back where it belonged. Victory was mine. The radio link to the other plane came alive. "Yee-haw!" taunted the loser of this aerial gunfight, a trucking-company official from Tucson. "Now it's my turn...