Word: dig
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...tragedy of Timerman's ordeal is more than his personal anguish. The Jewish community of Argentina and others should recognize this fact. The ovens of anti-Semitism may be waiting again, but no Jew will ever dig his own grave or walk placidly into those ovens...
Robert Vreeland, 35, a biologist from Portland, remembered looking up to see some of his partners beginning to slip. Said he: "I yelled for them to self-arrest, to dig in with their axes, but they didn't have time. I braced myself. I could see I was going to be hit. I got my ax in a couple of times, but it came out. It was like a ball of people falling through the air. There wasn't anything I could do." Vreeland and eleven companions survived. Four were killed outright; a fifth died a few hours...
With few exceptions, economists reject proposals for returning the world's money system to gold. Yale's Robert Triffin, for example, says that it is "an absurd waste of human resources to dig gold in distant corners of the earth for the sole purpose of transporting it and reburying it immediately afterward in other deep holes." Yet gold's hold on the general public remains. As Janos Fekete, the deputy head of the National Bank of Hungary, once explained at a conference of monetary experts: "There are about 300 economists who are against gold - and they might...
...prices not only has made consumers more cautious about wasting precious fuel but has also spurred industry to search much harder for new supplies. At more than $4.30 per thousand cubic feet (as compared with $1.42 in 1974), natural gas prices have reached a level at which wildcatters can dig wells deeper than ever before and yet still turn a profit if a well proves productive...
...American work ethic really expired? Is some old native eagerness to level wilderness and dig and build and invent now collapsing toward a decadence of dope, narcissism, income transfers and aerobic self-actualization...