Word: dig
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...former deputy assistant to the President for domestic affairs. He was pleading guilty to a charge of violating the civil rights of Dr. Lewis Fielding, Daniel Ellsberg's psychiatrist. Krogh had authorized the burglary in 1971 of Fielding's Beverly Hills office in an effort to dig up dirt on Ellsberg, the man who leaked the Pentagon papers to the press...
...Sendak's first published illustrations appeared in a children's book called The Wonderful Farm. Success started a year later when he illustrated Ruth Krauss's popular A Hole Is to Dig. But it was the books he both wrote and illustrated that moved him to the top of the anemic children's book field. Most widely read is Where the Wild Things Are (1963). It is the story of naughty Max, who is sent to bed supperless for, among other things, chasing the dog with a fork. Clad in his "wolf pajamas," Max petulantly transforms...
When he went up to the Hill to testify against the need for Congress to pass legislation calling for a court-appointed prosecutor, Jaworski sounded like a man determined to dig just as deep as Archie Cox had tried to. He told a House judiciary subcommittee that he had taken on the job only after receiving "what I consider the most solemn and substantial assurances of my absolute independence." That independence not only included asking for any tapes or other material he wanted, but also suing the President if they were not forthcoming. True, admitted Jaworski, he had been given...
...team seemed doomed way back last Spring, when Bent Hinze and Dragon Vujovic came to a parting of the ways with Mother Harvard, leaving only Felix Adedeji to take up the scoring slack. With Adedeji sitting out the last six games with a twisted knee, Munro has to dig deep into his bag of tricks to produce a winner...
...atmosphere of each. There is a desperate energy in these movies that's walled in by the oppressiveness of the settings. The characters move with a blind urgency like trapped rats--they have nowhere to go. And the film-makers can do nothing with the material but dig deeper...