Word: dig
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...land that has produced enough rhymers to people County Mayo, his is the voice that resonates loudest past the Irish Sea to Britain, America and beyond. Heaney's reputation seems to increase geometrically with every poem, starting back in 1966 with the appearance of his first true verse, "Digging." It announced, as William Butler Yeats announced in one of his own early works, that a vocation was being sought: "Living roots awaken in my head./ But I've no spade to follow.../ Between my finger and my thumb/ The squat pen rests./ I'll dig with...
...squash isn't as easy as you think. Try hitting for a while. The ball doesn't bounce, and the angles of the game are hard to master. Your racquet will take a beating as you smash it against the walls, trying to dig the ball out of the corners...
...both Cornell and Princeton won't lose to night. And when the cagers dig deep, they know that. Then the hurt begins to sting, and the profound disappointment is realized...
Meanwhile, Assistant Professor David Ellwood, who team-taught "Introduction to Human Resources Policy" with Bane this spring, will "have to roll up his sleeves and dig in," Moseley said. Other members of the program will take over Bane's thesis advisees...
...also include the youngest MacArthur winner ever: David Stuart, 18, a junior fellow at the Dumbarton Oaks library and museum in Washington, D.C., and an expert in Mayan hieroglyphics. Stuart became fascinated by the "weird carvings" when at the age of nine he accompanied his archaeologist father on a dig in Mexico...