Word: dig
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...problem: most of the choir members-including lawyers, clerks, filling-station attendants-would have to get leaves from their jobs. But the current tour (estimated cost: $800,000) was finally made possible by benefit dances, banquets, concerts and outright solicitation. To cover any remaining deficit, the wealthy church will dig into its own treasury. And employers, whether Mormons or not, gladly gave their employees leave...
...bites his wrist. He rips her dress off. Her eyes dilate. She clutches her breasts protectively. He kisses her brutally. She goes limp. Then slowly her arms, as if moved by a will of their own, go gliding around him, and her fingers dig greedily into his flesh. "Just once." she sighs a little later. "Just once...
Under the wide and starry sky, Dig the grave...
...Mountains. In the south is the Sahara, but in the north and west, along the Atlantic shore, Morocco abounds with vineyards, olive groves, forests and corn. More than 300.000 French colons, most of them settled in neat, irrigated farmsteads, have made its hillsides bloom. From its mines French engineers dig vast supplies of manganese and one-sixth of all the world's phosphates. In its bustling seaside cities, linked by fine new railroads, roads and telephone wires, skyscrapers and modern factories tower above native medinas built before France was France. Casablanca, a squalid fishing port until the French arrived...
...wheeling and firing to pick a man off base-Campy keeps the good catcher's track of every aspect of the game. It takes a hog-wild pitcher to whip a ball out of Campanella's reach, or stick a pitch in the dirt that he cannot dig out. "I line up my body for the way it's coming in," he says, "and jump if it's too much outside. I do it all pre-advance. It might be easier just to stick out the glove like most of them, but you might...