Word: dig
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Stewart finds a woman who has worked years scrubbing floors to free her jailed, but honest, son. The human interest aspects of this set-up sweep Stewart off his feet and he splashes the Hard-earned Heartaches across Chicago, little believing the son (Conte) is really innocent. Persuaded to dig deeper and talk with the prisoner, Stewart gradually turns from a skeptical, feature-conscious reporter into a citizen grieved by a civic unjustice and turns lower-case handsprings to right the wrong. After pacing the Polish quarter and fondling a Police Dept. switchboard, he finally finds the crucial clue...
This week Betancourt, who had leased a house (for 500 Bs a month), was trying to dig up enough money for a four-week vacation in the U.S. before going to the Bogotá conference, where his expenses will be paid as chief of the Venezuelan delegation. After the conference, he plans to return to Caracas, hopes to make a living writing for newspapers. He also may become salaried head of the Acción Democrática party...
...with the U.S. binding participants to the pledges of self-help and mutual aid laid down in the Paris report. Bilateral pacts with individual nations would commit each participant to 1) increase production (particularly in steel, coal, transport and food); 2) stabilize its currency; 3) cut tariff walls; 4) dig up hoarded assets; and 5) make strategic raw materials available...
...engineers' remedy: stop the well digging and dig a tunnel through the mountains to bring water from Toluca's Lerma River for the soggy but thirsty capital...
...seem to advocate tolerance for the customary things discriminated against: race, color, creed, religion, etc. However, I do not believe you have ever made a reference to homosexuality (a perfectly legitimate psychological condition) without going specially out of your way to make a vicious insinuation, caustic remark, or "dirty dig...