Word: dig
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...short-story writer, first published The Tailor and Ansty in 1942, they were already something of a legend. Cross tells the stories and the occasional songs as he heard them. They are about talking cats; about the adventures of the "cabogues," itinerant laborers who used to help the farmers dig spuds in the autumn; about weddings and wakes and corpses that sat up in their shrouds. Yet the special charm of this book is that it manages to describe Irish peasant life without condescension or that peculiar quaintness which often produces a distinct aroma of poteen and formaldehyde. The book...
...arrest of Gloria and three of her lieutenants. With that, a young Negro demanded to know why Wallace supporters had not been arrested. Angered, Tawes ordered the Guardsmen: "Get that man." The Negroes piled themselves in a human pyramid to hide the offender, and the Guardsmen rushed to dig him out. Rocks flew. Shouted Tawes: "Give...
...smashing through the magic 800 mark; in the sharpest daily decline since the assassination of President Kennedy, it dropped 6.77 points in one day. As the bears saw it, this was the start of the major shake-out they had been expecting all along: it was time to dig in for a slide to well below 800. But the market barely gave them a passing nod before it turned around and galloped up 18 points in only eight trading days. Last week it set a new record of 830.17 before settling back at week...
...Horror of Party Beach, billed as "the first horror monster musical," gets off to a swingin' start with a bunch of teen-agers engaged in puberty rites at the shore. But man, dig that cat out there on the jetty. He's real cool. Looks like a stalk of asparagus with an artichoke heart for a head. Marinated by radioactive waste, maybe. And there's more where he came from. Crazy? Let's dance. Yeah, yeah, yeah. When a trio known as the Del-Aires isn't pushing that Big Beat, the big beasts claim...
...suspicion. He seems too soft, too ready to please. He is accused of attempting to kill the wife who supported him while he dallied with her teenage sister. Can this fancy boy be trusted? His cell mates decide to risk it, and cut Gaspard in on their plan to dig their way to freedom...