Word: dig
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...sink to an as yet unplumbed depth. And this is by no means an inconceivable possibility, for the appropriations involved will be staggering. They will dwarf the two and a quarter billions spent on UNRRA. The Second Session of the Eightieth Congress may be more than somewhat reluctant to dig so deeply into the nation's pocket at a time when it will be mainly preoccupied with jockeying for position in the All America Sweepstakes of November...
...after the Senate voted the bill into law over the President's veto. At the grimy tipples from Pennsylvania to Alabama, they threw down their tools and stalked off the job, cursing the Congress. They had a slogan: "If they want coal, let the Senators go out and dig...
When the U.S. went south in 1904 to dig the big ditch it took Jim Crowism into the tropics. Skilled U.S. foremen were paid in gold currency; locally recruited labor, mainly Jamaican Negroes, were paid in silver. Those on the gold roll shopped at "gold" commissaries; those on the silver roll went to others marked "silver." Drinking fountains labeled gold and silver stood side by side. At the post-office were two separate wickets. The system went farther: the few Negroes on the gold roll would never have dreamed of sending their children to the superior gold schools, though theoretically...
...instead of a proper mouth it has a round sucker, like the rubber gadget that plumbers use to unplug drains. Inside the rim are rows of small teeth. When a hungry lamprey spies a fish, it darts to the fish's side. The sucker's teeth dig in and get a firm grip. Then the lamprey worries a hole in the fish with a file-like tongue and sucks its blood. Even if the fish survives, it is never quite the same again...
When they reach a fast-flowing stream with a gravel bottom, the mated pairs dig a shallow nest by moving the stones with their suckers. Then male and female attach themselves side by side to a large stone. As soon as the eggs are fertilized, the adult lampreys...