Word: digging
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...well with Down Under teenagers. At one meeting some 2,000 of them stepped forward after he had pitched them a line of rock 'n' rollery: "In America, teenagers have a language all their own and think that grownups are all squares because they can't dig the jive. I heard of one of these cats who went to church and said to the minister: 'Dad, you really blasted me this morning-you were real cool, Dad-cool, I mean cool, Dad. That jive of yours so beat me that I dropped $20 in the plate...
Summer after summer it was the same. As soon as the tall Herr Professor arrived at the Baltic seaside for his vacation, he began to pace the beach methodically, studying the terrain. Then, in coveralls, armed with an enormous shovel, he started to dig. Hour after hour, day after day, he labored, heaping up the sand in a big, flat-topped pyramid some twelve feet square, the sides banked at just the right angle to avoid cave-ins, the corners smoothed to knife-edge symmetry, a system of ditches carefully plotted to drain off the ground water, a ramp from...
...ideas for covering the foundations, Edith finds it necessary to visit supermarkets, watch women in bargain basements and cafeteria lines. "To look lovely," says Designer Head, who has been married 18 years, "a woman will suffer. She'll wear a waist cincher that squeezes her, boned bras that dig her, heels that tilt her to the sensitive balls of her feet." But it is all worth it because "clothes have to do with happiness, and can actually give a woman personality. A woman in a bathtub has little personality; she's just a woman without clothes...
...been an investigative reporter for a long time," says Reporter Trimble, "and some things just smell. You know there's something boiling away under the surface if you can just take time to dig it out." After his solid series of solid beats, Scripps-Howard has given Trimble plenty of time. Sprung from his desk...
...dig it the most," she agreed. "The way our social set-up is set up it is hard for people to have the right attitude for a happy, full life. They don't have the right spiritual conditions for existence...