Word: dig
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...sleeveless, some two-piece, some shifts and some full-length. But though every kikoi has a border and a sunburst or some scroll work in the middle, the material of each is unique. Most come inscribed with a message in Swahili, and the girl who cares enough to dig up an interpreter may find she is advertising "Love Is like Grass." For as little as $29.95, presto! A walking fortune cookie...
...have to build a high, strong fence, but he may also also pay higher property taxes. To prevent disease and pressure on local sewers, he may be forced to install a costly pump that recirculates his water every 18 hours. To save town water, he may be required to dig his own well...
...Sheppard ("a mockery of justice") with such editorial outbursts as GET THAT KILLER (TiME, July 24). For their part, newsmen refuse to surrender the right of the press to alert and inform the public. Though they may err on the side of sensationalism, their job is al ways to dig out all the facts. The Constitution, after all, guarantees a free press just as firmly as it does due process. The tough problem here, as it frequently is in the law, is to balance both cherished values...
Putting down the line is the hardest and costliest part of pipelining; in rough terrain it can cost $150,000 a mile, always requires many pieces of special machinery to dig the ditches and successfully lay the pipe. But once in place, pipelines are impervious to weather and immune to strikes, operate day and night with rare breakdowns and only occasional pumping station overhauls. They eliminate the costly necessity of deadheading empty cars, barges or tankers, are so automated that only a handful of men can monitor a cross-country system. Pipelines are thus the cheapest transportation available for bulk...
Harlem has seceded and declared itself a nation. Barricades made of abandoned autos, Fifth Avenue buses and Con Edison signs ("Dig We Must") have been erected on its borders. Frontier guards have been posted on the subway lines and the New York Central and New Haven railroads, and tolls are collected as the trains pass through Harlem. The "numbers" have been nationalized. Harlem's Congressman Lance Huggins, the first Prime Minister, announces a policy of no-surrender: "We have surrendered absolutely to our fate which is freedom. We had this secret space in us and now we have located...