Word: dig
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...greater life values." At night and on weekends, Ives wrote symphonies and songs and sonatas, which mostly didn't get played till years later because they upset listeners too much. Ives said his two careers complemented one another: he said it helped his music when he had to "dig a little in real life...
ENERGY. No mandatory energy-conservation measures were proposed by Ford, to the acute unhappiness of Simon and Federal Energy Administrator John Sawhill. The President urged citizens, in effect, to dig out last winter's check list: lower thermostats, keep cars tuned and tires properly inflated, reduce settings on hot-water heaters, use cold water for laundry, ride public transportation, increase car pooling, insulate homes and put up storm windows...
Died. Spyridon Marinates, 73, redoubtable dean of Greek archaeologists, who in 1967 unearthed the remains of an ancient city of 20,000 buried beneath volcanic ash on the Aegean island of Thera; of a skull fracture suffered in a fall at the Thera dig site. A center of ancient Minoan culture, Thera was practically wiped out overnight in a massive eruption about 1500 B.C., leading Marinates to surmise, though less strenuously than some of his colleagues, that its destruction was the basis for Plato's account of the lost island of Atlantis...
...master-or rather mistress-of birth control; when overcrowded or undernourished, the rabbit "resorbs" its embryos in utero. Adams' industrious Hazel, Fiver and Bigwig are pelt-deep fictions; in the real world, male rabbits are lallygagging drones. The does, contrary to those powder puffs in Watership Down, dig the burrows, run the homes and defend their young with Amazonian ferocity against such formidable enemies as the ferret, stoat and weasel...
...expeditions in Cyprus when fighting broke out had some close shaves. One of the groups escaped to a British military base on the island and were evacuated to Beirut, Lebanon two days after the invasion. The other group left the island only after the 25 students on the dig spent two days in hiding...