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Besides taking part in local Ayrshire affairs, McAdam operated the Kaims Colliery. The colliery supplied coal to the British Tar Company, of Archibald Cochrane, 9th Earl of Dundonald and partners in the coal tar trade; McAdam ran its kilns. 



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The closure of the Kellingley colliery heralds the end of the British coal mining industry. Taking with it decades of camaraderie and history, this local tragedy is shrouding Yorkshire in sadness




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Art crime takes many forms, from faking the provenance of paintings, to swiping Old Masters from dusty country houses, to trafficking illicit antiquities. 

Unlike the history of Nazi-looted art, which triggers public disgust, one type of art crime can engender quiet admiration: the perfectly executed heist of a masterpiece from a museum.

But this crime is really a far more sordid affair:

www.bbc.com/culture/story/20131113-the-sordid-reality-of-art-crime/1

 

North Korea has finally responded to persistent rumours that leader Kim Jong-Un had plastic surgery to look like his revered grandfather, issuing an angry denial criticising "sordid" media reports.

傳聞北韓領導人為了讓自己更像他尊敬的祖父，動過整形手術，北韓終於回應，憤怒地否認，批評媒體報導「卑鄙」。◎陳維真

 

The rumours have been partly fed by the undeniable fact that Kim Jong-Un has sought to evoke memories of his grandfather in numerous ways, through his dress, haircut, gestures and public appearances. And there is a clear physical resemblance. But Pyongyang’s patience with reports of plastic surgery appears to have run out.

但金正恩以服裝、髮型、手勢等不同方式，試圖要讓民眾想起他的祖父，卻是不爭的事實，且更助長傳聞。而且，兩人外貌的確明顯相似。不過，平壤當局容忍整形報導的耐性似已消磨殆盡。

 

Insisting that the very idea of Kim undergoing plastic surgery was "unimaginable," KCNA flatly rejected what it described as "sordid hackwork by rubbish media." （AFP）

北韓中央通信社堅稱，金正恩接受整形手術的想法「難以想像」，對其所謂「垃圾媒體的卑鄙報導」斷然駁斥。（法新社）

 

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In a shantytown near Johannesburg, an angry mob committed a horrifying crime that was caught on video.

shantytown(shăn'tē-toun')
n.
A town or a section of a town consisting chiefly of shacks.(shăk)

shack
n.
A small, crudely built cabin; a shanty.

intr.v., shacked, shack·ing, shacks.
To live or dwell: farm hands shacking in bunkhouses.

idiom:
shack up Slang.

1. To sleep together or live in sexual intimacy without being married.
2. To live, room, or stay at a place: I'm shacking up with my cousin till I find a place of my own.

[Possibly from American Spanish jacal, from Nahuatl xacalli, adobe hut : xámitl, adobe + calli, house, hut.]

col·lier (kŏl'yər)
n.

1. A coal miner.
2. A coal ship.

[Middle English colier, from col, coal, from Old English.]

col·lier·y (kŏl'yə-rē)
Meaning #1: a workplace consisting of a coal mine plus all the buildings and equipment connected with it
Synonym: pit

sor·did (sôr'dĭd)
sordid：形容詞，卑鄙的、不誠實的。例句：The story paints a sordid picture of bribes and scams.（故事描繪貪污與騙局的黑暗面。）
adj.

1. Filthy or dirty; foul.
2. Depressingly squalid; wretched: sordid shantytowns.
3. Morally degraded: "The sordid details of his orgies stank under his very nostrils" (James Joyce). See synonyms at mean².
4. Exceedingly mercenary; grasping.

[Middle English sordide, festering, purulent, from Latin sordidus, dirty, from sordēre, to be dirty.]

sordidly sor'did·ly adv.
sordidness sor'did·ness n.

hideous：形容詞，可怕的、難以忍受的。例句：His family was subjected to a hideous attack by the gang. （他的家人遭受幫派份子可怕的襲擊。）

flatly：副詞，斷然地、直截了當地。例句：He flatly dismissed the idea as impossible.（他覺得這個想法不可能，直接拒絕了。）