Word: dig
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...halfway," and assiduously courted the Indians as a vehicle for compromise. But he was also U.N.'s most spirited heckler of the Russians, made up fictitious Russian proverbs to confound Vishinsky at his own game ("The more moo, the less milk"), once commented on a repetitious Vishinsky tirade: "Dig that broken record." He entered the Cabinet for the first time as Defense Minister when Eden took over as Prime Minister, was there only eight months before becoming Foreign Secretary. At 51, he is the youngest of the Tory top echelon...
Enter Franz. Her latest biographer, Helen Holdredge (Mammy Pleasant), labored hard to dig up all that is rich and rare about her favorite hussy. What was Lola's strange appeal? Her beauty? Her habit of wielding a horsewhip in order to discipline cynical newspaper editors who hinted at her Forever Amberguous relations with...
...easy to see why these Diaries have lain so long like buried treasure. They tell a story that must still be painful to Mormon pride; they dig up terrible incidents that many would rather forget. And yet, thanks to the quality that was in John D. Lee, and thanks to the healing march of time, no American can read these Diaries without thrilling to the roughhewn courage and tenacity that is written in every page of them...
Warren, honorary chairman of next year's March of Dimes campaign in the District of Columbia, promised one small boy patient, a scissors-sharpening entrepreneur, to try to dig up a dull pair for honing...
Today, Arlington is maintained by a crew of 90 ground keepers, who carefully tend the grounds, repair crumbling headstones and monuments, and dig graves with huge mechanical diggers that can scoop out a regulation 5-by-3-by-8-ft. hole in eight minutes. One man has the sole duty of patrolling the cemetery endlessly to remove withered wreaths and fading flowers from the markers. From neighboring Fort Myer, 60-odd husky, white-gloved soldiers act as pallbearers, buglers, riflemen (to fire a farewell volley into the air at every military burial) and 24-hour-a-day sentries...