All 19 Uses
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- After a couple of years, the Captain raised Dad to section foreman, taught him how to lead men and operate and ventilate a mine, and instilled in him a vision of the town.†
Chpt 1
- After Dad became a foreman, he convinced his father to quit the Gary mine and move to Coalwood, where there was no union and a man could work.†
Chpt 1
- I was watching television in the living room one night when Mom suggested to Dad, after he had spent some minutes on the mine phone (which we called the black phone) boasting about Jim to one of his foremen, that it might be a good thing if he bragged on me every once in a while.†
Chpt 2
- Since Dad was who he was, she could always be counted on to know the latest on what the company was planning and which foreman was up and which was down.†
Chpt 2
- His father had been crushed by a slate fall about a dozen years back on a section where Dad was the foreman.
Chpt 4 *foreman = a person who is in charge of other workers
- It was no secret in Coalwood that injury and death was always a possibility for every man every day in the mine, no matter how hard Dad and his foremen worked to keep things safe.†
Chpt 9
- He fired the foreman responsible for failing to properly support the roof of his section.†
Chpt 9
- Dad led me to the bathhouse and opened his locker and handed me a one-piece coverall, hard-toe boots, a white foreman's helmet, and a leather utility belt.†
Chpt 11
- "Now you look like a mine foreman," he said after another critical assessment.†
Chpt 11
- The foreman of the work party saw us and came over.†
Chpt 11
- The black face under the white foreman's helmet was my uncle Robert, Mom's brother.†
Chpt 11
- I see it all in my head days before, see the cut the continuous miners will take, the route of the loaders, the roof bolts going in, the places where the methane might build up and where the foreman needs to check with his safety lamp.†
Chpt 11
- Doc waited at the ambulance with its crew, and Mr. Van Dyke watched with a little knot of foremen and engineers from the porch outside Dad's office.†
Chpt 18
- Clyde Bishop, the day-shift foreman, passed through the gate as if I weren't standing there and climbed the steps to the back porch.†
Chpt 18
- Dad met with his foremen and told them a twenty percent cut in salaries—his included—would take effect immediately.†
Chpt 22
- DAD was up at the mine all that evening, inside working with his foreman doing safety inspections.†
Chpt 23
- At home, Dad still went to work every day, joining his foremen for safety inspections and even rock dusting when necessary.†
Chpt 25
- Some union men chased a foreman off mine property yesterday.†
Chpt 25
- I hoped that the hand that had reached for him had been perhaps one of his foremen trying to bring him from the darkness into the light, and that he had recognized him and had at last reached out, had taken what was being offered.†
Chpt Epil.
Definitions:
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(1)
(foreman) a person chosen to lead and speak for a group, especially at work or in a courtroomAt work, a foreman is the worker who supervises and directs other workers, often in factories, workshops, or on construction sites. In a court case, the foreman is the juror selected to lead the jury and announce its decision.
- (2) (meaning too rare to warrant focus)