Word: digging
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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FORGET the care of your children, 1 Peking tells Chinese women; there are now communal nurseries. Feel free at last-to dig ditches and build roads -and approach the status of ants. Such is the bleak present and the formidable future promised in Red China's amazing new revolution. See FOREIGN NEWS, The People's Communes...
When the steely yellow sun sets over the Yard on a late November afternoon, janitors set the radiators to their winter-long knocking and windows slam down tight till spring comes again. Inside their dusty rooms, freshmen dig into whatever they dig into, possibly books, and during the cold nights they dream of silken nymphs on friendly faraway isles...
...held it already. Four years ago Multimillionaire W. Averell Harriman hit the hustings after two decades of public service, squeaked in as Governor by 11,125 votes. Harriman was stopped cold in his attempt to parlay the post into a 1956 Democratic nomination for President. So he decided to dig in at Albany. The Governor shoveled generous chunks of patronage to traditionally starved upstate Democrats to get them to slave for Ave. Periodically he toured all 62 counties. He cut ribbons or pulled switches on new projects, some of them started by his predecessor, Tom Dewey. He funneled money into...
...ballad ("Some girls think summer means stockings goodbye. If that's your trick you're an unhip chick") plugging Chemstrand nylons. Unfortunately for U.S. admen, their prize TV pitchmen were not entered in the Venice competition. Explained Ray Goulding, who plays Bert Piel: "They don't dig beer over there. And it's hard to get a head on a bottle of Chianti...
Small planes swooped overhead, streaming smoke as they traced the curves of her initials. All Venice got the message: Brigitte Bardot was arriving. Myopic judges might still be watching movies-including the U.S. entry, God's Little Acre, which none of them seemed to dig-but the loth biennial international film festival already belonged to the sultry feline from France...