Word: dig
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Senate Rules Committee, which will report to the Senate. Unless Iraud is clearly shown, a majority of Senators almost certainly will stand by Colleague Chavez. On one other point, however, there was even greater certainty: having won a skirmish, old (70) Cavalryman Hurley is sure to dig in his spurs and ride harder than ever...
...found 113 bodies in ten graves. At the bottom of each grave were two corpses with bullet holes in the tops of their skulls; the other victims had been shot in the skull from behind. Said Grantskalns: "The only explanation we could make was that . . . two were chosen to dig the pit and then shot when they had finished, [and the rest] were shot at the edge...
...reading permanent inhabitant--the illegitimate son of the Duke of Monmouth, who is buried directly under the building. When the library was first planned the trustees found that one corner of the contemplated land would encroach on the old Grancry graveyard. Graveyard officials gave permission to dig up the graves until they discovered what illustrious guest they were planning to re-air. This changed everything and the architect had to revise his plans and build a special vault for the Duke's boy to leave him undisturbed...
...jeeping through enemy roadblocks, leading relief columns to the front, jogging and rallying his men everywhere. Once the enemy crossed the Kum River, the pivotal city of Taejon was doomed, but Dean decided to give the Communists a real fight. He sent the bulk of his troops south to dig in for the next battle, and stayed on himself in Taejon with elements of the 19th and 34th Regiments to direct the last and greatest delaying action before the Pusan perimeter...
...most beautiful and least-known national monuments. It lies at the heart of the Navaho reservation, about 80 miles northwest of Gallup, N.M. on a spine-rattling dirt road. Down the winding course of the canyon runs an underground river. In summer, Navahos farm the sandy banks and dig for water in midstream. Superstitiously afraid of the cave ruins, they build their hive-shaped hogans at the feet of the sky-filling sandstone cliffs. The Navahos still paint animals, like the cows below, on the cliffs; the earliest known example of their reportorial pictures is reproduced above...