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Word: diggers (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1980-1989
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...hear the Clam Digger Band playing "When The Saints Go Marching In." This can't be a football game...the cirucs must be in town...

Author: By M.d. Stankiewicz, SPECIAL TO THE CRIMSON | Title: You Should Know Better... | 11/18/1989 | See Source »

Affliction is about a dismal town in New Hampshire and its effects on one of the inhabitants, Wade Whitehouse, part-time well digger, snow-plow operator, police officer and school-crossing guard. He has lived in a trailer ever since his wife left him for a man with better prospects. Smoldering with resentments, he lets routine things slip his mind. "Sometimes you just forget who you are. Especially when you're sick of who you are," he tells his brother Rolfe...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Fugitive | 9/4/1989 | See Source »

...more important than Felder's brief-side manner, however, is his ability to win big money for clients with his uncanny publicity skills. Perceiving that the public had judged Robin Givens to be a gold digger in pursuit of her hubby's heavyweight fortune, Felder told the press that Robin sought no money from the divorce. But less than a month later, he filed a $125 million libel suit against Tyson on her behalf. The reason? The champ was quoted in the New York Post lambasting the actress and her mother as, among other things, "the slime of the slime...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Law: A Struggle for Splitsville's Buck:Felder tops Mitchelson | 1/9/1989 | See Source »

...laugh at that bit of Princeton nonsense. "How can one quantify the worth of a Stephen Jay Gould?" I retort haughtily. "Isn't he worth more than some two-bit rock digger from South Jersey State...

Author: By Matthew Pinsker, | Title: 10,000 Names of Harvard | 1/4/1989 | See Source »

Under fire for his role in Iranscam, the Vice President proves he is a candidate of rough- and- tumble as well as resume. -- It' s "Fat Boy" vs. "The Dirty Digger" as Ted Kennedy lands a sneak punch on Rupert Murdoch. -- An FBI agent describes five years undercover in the Mafia. -- Why is Al Haig running for President? To prove, in part, "I' m not the ogre people thought...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Time Magazine Contents Page January 18, 1988 Vol. 131 No. 3 | 1/18/1988 | See Source »

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