Word: dig
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...tournament was set up by Robert Mendelsohn '73, who is also a leading contender for the title. "My reason for starting the tournament was a social one," he said. "We wanted to dig the Adams House ping-pong players out of the woodwork. But the competitive element is certainly there...
...piles of unwashed diapers, watched their soufflés sink, and could take no refuge in their powerless television sets. The blackouts were rotated by districts in six three-hour periods a day that always seemed to coincide with mealtimes. In some rural areas, chilly Britons hoisted shovels to dig their own coal...
Such is the scenario proposed by Professor Marinatos, the autocratic old genius of Greek archaeology, who has spent the past four summers excavating the rich Minoan town that he discovered on Santorini. The site of his dig is shrouded in rosy dust, shaded by tin-roof sheds, and shielded by high fences. Situated on the southern horn of the main island in a spot sheltered from the sometimes blistering north wind, the site straddles a deep, dry gully. Marinates began his dig by tunneling through the pumice from the gully bed. "We hit the bull's-eye right away...
...being unable to bear the burden of their possessions, and became ugly to look upon, in the eyes of him [Zeus] who has the gift of sight . . . filled as they were with lawless ambition and power." Therefore Zeus destroyed them. As Professor Marinates continues to unearth evidence from his dig on Santorini, Plato's story of Atlantis begins to read more and more like actual history...
...subdivider in New Mexico, is supplying future residents of its 150,000-acre Rio communities with neither water nor sewage systems. Southwest Land Corp. is developing Santa California City, N. Mex., without selling new owners the mineral rights to their land; other people, who bought the rights earlier, can dig up the yards at any time for silver, coal, or even gravel. Other items in the property report that Southwest filed with HUD: "There are no provisions for street maintenance after 1975 . . . Flash floods may destroy portions of the streets in certain units...