Word: digged
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...inconsequentiality, U Nu chattered on about his country. "Burma is a hot country. In all the three seasons-summer, the monsoon and winter-people are perspiring." He added blandly: "I had seen that his Excellency Premier Chou En-lai was perspiring profusely under the fans." It was a sly dig: in Burma, a man is said to be "sweating under the fans" when he has something on his conscience...
...challenge is immense: it conjures up a vision of U.S. capital and skill flowing out to far-off lands to dam great rivers, dig new mines, so that millions who know only hunger may share in the freedom and plenty that Americans take for granted. But the businessmen in the Eisenhower Cabinet are not interested in a return to expensive giveaway programs. Their WEP is based on spreading abroad the practices and philosophy that have made the U.S. the wealthiest, most progressive nation in history. Foreign investment is to the advantage of other nations who lack the capital to develop...
Fred arranged to rent the site from the rancher who owned it (with a verbal agreement to give him 15% of any commercial ore mined), and began to dig for buried treasure. He had only the barest knowledge of mining practices, and for three years he worked alone, hacking away with a pick and a crude handdrill. Many Saturdays Martha Schwartzwalder swept the school floors and washed blackboards so her husband could work on his mine. It was a grinding, grueling job. On the last four unblazed miles to the minesite, everything had to be carried by hand. Twice...
What a gas it was to pick up a copy of your crazy mag and glim Dave Brubeck on the cover [Nov. 8]. At last those of us who dig the modernists won't receive gleepin' stares when we mention Brubeck or Rogers . . . These cats are the wailin'est! Thanks for your flipping recap of the '54 jazz scene...
...Evil). To suggest, perhaps, the eternal travail of these opposites, the picture has been made as eternal as possible (102 minutes). When at last the moviegoer dares hope it will end, one of the characters looks him square in the eye and announces: "There's a grave to dig...