Word: dig
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Dates: during 2000-2009
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...bloggers staged a dramatic show of force. The occasion was Strom Thurmond's 100th birthday party, during which Trent Lott made what sounded like a nostalgic reference to Thurmond's past segregationist leanings. The mainstream press largely glossed over the incident, but when regular journalists bury the lead, bloggers dig it right back up. "That story got ignored for three, four, five days by big papers and the TV networks while blogs kept it alive," says Joshua Micah Marshall, creator of talkingpointsmemo.com, one of a handful of blogs that stuck with the Lott story...
...neighbors such as Mali and Guinea. Senegalese President Abdulaye Wade suggested that his country should buy its own ferry to use on the River Gambia - or even tunnel under its neighbor. There are many longer tunnels in the world, Wade said, and China had already offered to help dig one here. Earlier this month, regional power Nigeria stepped in to end the impasse. Gambia agreed to scale back ferry fees and Senegal said it would reopen its borders. "The stupid thing is, we are the same people," says money changer Fall. "Our problems come between the authorities, not the people...
...cleared to prepare it for the National Football Conference divisional playoff game on Jan. 4. So Ted Eisenreich, the Packers' buildings supervisor, did what he usually does in similar situations. He put out the word in the mill town of 96,466 that he needed 200 shovelers to dig out the field at $6 an hour. Dozens had to be turned away, while still others offered to work for free. "I don't want the money," a 50-year-old Packer fan told the Milwaukee Journal Sentinel. "I just want to help." (See pictures of Super Bowl entertainment through...
There is a catch, of course, if you’re a boy who happens to dig other boys. So twice a year, I shred a letter and mail it back to Captain Sullivan with a polite request to be taken off his mailing list. It’s become something of a ritual, since I keep getting the letters, keep sending them back in tiny pieces, and keep getting stoic silence from Captain Sullivan. I’m sure he secretly enjoys it as much as I do, or else he’d probably stop wasting the military?...
...Four days after the quake, a teacher named Said Rasool traveled down from his village to seek help in Balakot, his cream-colored trousers still stained with the blood of his dead students. He wandered from one cluster of soldiers to another, pleading that they help him try to dig out his students. But there was still too much work to be done in Balakot before the soldiers could follow the teacher up into the mountains. For Rasool, as for so many still awaiting relief, hope has already...