Word: dig
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...province six years ago. In his village on the outskirts of Luoyang, robbing a tomb is similar to an initiation rite, and Feng, then 19, was filled with nervous excitement as he and a group of fellow raiders ambled into a local wheat field to see what they could dig up. It was after midnight, and they had been drinking. In truth, Feng admits, he was a little spooked--children in this area are raised on ghost stories of imperial ancestors, haunting mischievous villagers. As the men tossed up spadefuls of dirt, chatting and laughing under the glare...
Intelligence officials confirm to Newsday reporters that Plame works for the CIA on weapons of mass destruction in an undercover capacity. Novak tells Newsday the sources came to him with the scoop. "I didn't dig it out, it was given to me." On Tenet's orders, the CIA is already preparing an initial crime report on the Plame leak for the Justice Department...
...ambushed at a book convention. He got up in front of a national audience and called me a liar for 20 minutes. President Andrew Jackson would have put a bullet between his eyes. Franken's job is to do exactly what Donald Segretti did for Nixon--dig up dirt on people. He is not a satirist; he is not a comedian. He's someone who wants to injure people's reputations, and I think people have got to know that...
...while Time Out watched to see what happened. In the end, a group of cell phone-equipped American exchange students showed up and got autographs, while the passing Britons were unmoved by the man who commands a greater following than any other musician in America. The British do not dig Dave. What have they got against...
...explain that “the single biggest trouble with time use for nearly all students who struggle is their pattern of studying in a series of short bursts” and that students should “dig in and engage one piece of work for hours at a time.” Are you really talking about hitting the books? Or is this a metaphor for something else?...