Word: digged
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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When fall comes, the students will go right on with such chores. Though they will study the usual prep-school courses and get their share of skiing, riding and playing, they will also plant, sew, dig irrigation ditches, scrub floors, haul wood, tend horses, clear paths, pound nails, rake leaves, paint walls, and do any other manual labor the Holdens can think...
...story is based on real events, it must have happened about 1500 B.C., during the Mycenaean period, the dimly-known dawn of Greek history. So legendary are the Seven that to dig for the graves at Eleusis might seem as unrealistic as to dig in Yorkshire for the grave of Robin Hood. But last week Archaeologist George E. Mylonas of Washington University. St. Louis, announced that he had actually found the graves...
Eleusis is now the main base of the Greek air force, and the whistling roar of the jets competes with the racket of a rock-crushing plant. Greek Archaeologist Mylonas was not disturbed by such distraction. He told his workers where to dig, and three weeks ago one of them hit an ancient tomb a yard below the surface and only 50 ft. from the rumbling rock crusher. More digging uncovered five more tombs-just the right number to fit both the legend and the description of Pausanias. The bones they contained were poorly preserved, but late Mycenaean vases proved...
...Scripps-Howard's crusading Cleveland Press, Veteran (51) Forrest Allen enjoys an earned reputation as a tenacious, digging reporter who makes life uncomfortable for errant public officials. For five years, picking away at the probate-court administration in Cuyahoga County, Allen has often broken off bits of news, but he never seemed to hit probate pay dirt. Last February, after he got a tip from young (29) Courthouse Reporter Sam Giaimo, Allen and Giaimo began to dig deeper into the court. What they found provided the Press with frontpage headlines for weeks, scandalized Cleveland, and started a Bar Association...
...steel) from foreign-controlled sources abroad, has a big stake in a huge new manganese deposit of its own. The deposit, estimated at 50 million tons, was discovered in French Equatorial Africa by a French development company (Comilog), which is 49% owned by Big Steel. U.S. Steel will help dig the ore, lay a railroad to bring it 250 miles to the seacoast...