Word: dig
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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George VI suffered a nasty little dig from the underworld. Style-conscious burglars broke into a London tailor shop where a suit of the King's hung, departed with four choices of their own, but the King's was not among them. The snooted suit: a dark blue lounge model...
Just ending, too, was an eight-year dig by the Smithsonian Institution in Mexico's state of Veracruz. In hilly, jungle country, not far from the Gulf Coast, lived a people far older than the Zapotecs, probably older than the Mayas. Archeologists call their culture "Olmec"; but as people they have no name, no whispering mention in legend. The Smithsonian calls them the "La Venta people," after the place where their most impressive monuments were found...
Plunger. In Los Angeles, Frank Knapp Jr. hired crews to dig for water, drew a blank at 100 ft., dug 90 ft. deeper, now owns an oil well...
...will be bored as the Glee Club sings on the steps of Dartmouth Hall, the kind of a gent who doesn't intend to play some part in the extracurricular activities, and a sap who will sit in the grandstand and talk to your girl friend while the boys dig their noses into the sod to bring glory to the Big Green, then you've picked the wrong college and should change your plans before it is too late."--September 13th issue of The Daily Dartmouth...
...Land and the Well is written with warmth, and spiced with touches of romantic rivalry and marital passions. But its scope, as fiction, is as carefully limited as the lives of its characters-whose sole ambition is to dig and own their own well. Author Wernher eschews all flights of fancy, all personal philosophizing; her canvas has nothing of the breadth, her prose nothing of the lugubrious weight of The Good Earth. With intelligence and respect she enumerates the everyday joys and sorrows of a people who know all there is to know about the soil, nothing whatever about...