Word: dig
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...National Museum at Naples, was taking a short vacation seven weeks ago when he got an electrifying phone call from one of his archeologists at nearby Pompeii: "We're uncovering the best-preserved Roman painting ever!" Maiuri hurried over, and sure enough, there was something to make him dig hard. Peering over a layer of volcanic gravel were the head and shoulders of a beautiful woman...
...sweetness of his tongue! It's cloying. For pages and pages he talks on in this manner: "You know I've been so close to the details I've paid no attention to the clothing of the day. First we find a buried star and now we go to dig up a mint-new human." And later on he says "The sweetness of your offer is a good smell on the west wind...
...hedgehogs NATO planners mean mobile defense units which would be free to dig in almost anywhere, surrounded by their own armor and infantry perimeters and by minefields. Aim of the hedgehogs is to break the enemy mass and to direct it into channels. The defenders would counterattack with atomic weapons, harry the canalized enemy laterally from the hedgehogs, blast him from...
...McLain (Wayne-Fellows; Warner) starts off with a documentary sequence of the House Un-American Activities Committee in session in Washington, D.C. From there, the picture goes on to some wildly fanciful movie melodrama. Big Jim McLain (John Wayne) and his partner (James Arness) are committee investigators assigned to dig up evidence about a Communist spy ring in Hawaii. Investigator Arness, who wants to destroy the ring by beating up the Reds every time he sights one, gets killed. Wayne, who takes on eight Communists singlehanded in a free-for-all, has to be rescued by the island police...
...take long to dig them up. Reporter Hill went to an outlying district, found that the dead, insane and bedridden sick had been voted. The paper covered its front page with printed registration records and poll slips to show the forged signatures...