Word: digged
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Fifteen-Minute Toll. To dig the tunnel, contractors will use a mammoth U.S. cutter which fits the tube, rides along on rails, permits 24 electric drills to work at once. Most of Mont Blanc is solid granite, and (with electric drills) this is to the good: in 1880 workers digging the St. Gotthard tunnel in a less solid mountain were killed by rock lapses...
Scott had some other defects as a candidate. In a hard-drinking country, he favored the abolition of hard liquor. He had written a tract on the subject in 1821, and in 1832 he made drunken soldiers dig graves, as a warning of where they were headed. He lost the Irish vote because he had executed some Irish deserters in Mexico, and he lost the anti-Catholic vote because one of his daughters...
...Congressmen are not necessarily after headlines exclusively, although in a hot political year headlines can mean a lot. They are also exercising a historical function: the legislative check & balance on the executive. Nowadays, when the executive arm has become outsize and uncheckable by other means, the congressional investigation can dig up the facts for corrective lawmaking, give the public its best chance to see how its bureaucrats conduct themselves and how its money is being spent...
...dig more coal, the Communists have organized a vast slave labor program. Polish mines have been reinforced by convicts, military conscripts, students who fail their examinations and members of the SP (Service to Poland) youth organization. Czechoslovakia drafted 77,500 minor bureaucrats into the pits in one sweeping purge. The Communists get coal by a combination of threats, rewards ("Banner of Labor" decorations), bonuses, extra food, and discipline...
...sociological study of American life as it was affected by the opening of the Korean war, it is mediocre. There is a familiar ring to it, something reminiscent of the pictures that appeared during the early part of World War II, and there is not much effort to dig below the traditional movie world of apple pie and Mom, both of which appear prominently...