Nine alive. (Top News of 2002: July).One by one they emerged from the depths of the earth, their faces blackened black·en v. black·ened, black·en·ing, black·ens v.tr. 1. To make black. 2. To sully or defame: a scandal that blackened the mayor's name. 3. with coal dust. For three days, rescuers worked around the clock to save nine miners who were trapped 240 feet underground, in Pennsylvania's Quecreek Mine. Despite cold and darkness, the trapped miners refused to give up. They huddled hud·dle n. 1. A densely packed group or crowd, as of people or animals. 2. Football A brief gathering of a team's players behind the line of scrimmage to receive instructions for the next play. 3. together to keep warm and fought off hunger by sharing bites of a corned beef sandwich. On July 27, their ordeal ordeal, ancient legal custom whereby an accused person was required to perform a test, the outcome of which decided the person's guilt or innocence. By an ordeal, appeal was made to divine authority to decide the guilt or innocence of one accused of a crime or to ended when emergency workers drilled a rescue shaft down to the air pocket where the men waited. At 2:45 a.m., the rescue capsule capsule In botany, a dry fruit that opens when ripe. It splits from top to bottom into separate segments known as valves, as in the iris, or forms pores at the top (e.g., poppy), or splits around the circumference, with the top falling off (e.g., pigweed and plantain). hoisted the last miner to safety. |
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