Word: dig
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...memorial, to be built on the spot. Then the Jewish delegates, followed by members of the town council, walked to the old cemetery. Quietly they chanted the archaic Castilian of the Sephardic prayers for the dead. As they prayed, workmen in a corner of the plot began to dig the foundations of a new building, wounding the soil of Judiz Mendi for the first time in 460 years...
Labor took the hint. "Taft-Hartley will not manufacture steel," said onetime miner Phil Murray, paraphrasing the old mine union cry against the militia: "You can't dig coal with bayonets...
...summoned by the echoes, 178 sallow-faced workmen, each carrying a brown paper parcel or a battered cardboard suitcase, trudged along the quay of Dover Marine Station and straggled up the gangplank of a trim Belgian steamer, the S.S. Koenig Albert. The men were Italian miners, recruited to dig coal in fuel-hungry Britain; they were being sent away because British miners refused to work with foreigners (TIME, May 26). Most will find jobs in Belgian pits...
Britain's economic health depends on so small and crucial a thing as a 10% increase in its annual coal production. To help dig that extra coal, the National Coal Board last year invited 5,000 unemployed Italian miners to work in the pits. They were to be given the dirtiest and lowest-paid jobs; they would be the first to be fired in hard times. But 18 months and $615,000 later, only 2,200 had been placed. And their 715,000 British workmates threatened to down tools unless the "Eyeties" were thrown...
...project involves some very grave, if unavoidable, dangers. The question will arise as to whether the new system and the new methods accompanying it is good, or a necessary evil. Some maintain that its value lies in the more or less thorough acouring of the nation's schools to dig up talent that would in previous years have been left uncovered; others feel that the whole affair has a bad smell about it, but that Harvard must compete as fiercely as anyone else. One of the principal questions facing the administrator and the alumni committeeman as well is: Just what...