Word: digging
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Forbidden Sales. The shrinking volume gave Wall Street a breather to dig into its massive paperwork pileup. Despite Wednesday trading recesses, which will continue at least for the rest of the month, the problem of undelivered securities and accounting confusion remains so severe that two organizations last week took drastic steps to overcome it. Merrill Lynch, Pierce, Fenner & Smith, the largest U.S. securities firm, imposed a "house rule" forbidding its salesmen to sell over-the-counter stocks for customers unless they first have physical possession of the certificates involved. The National Association of Securities Dealers, a trade group which polices...
...landed in St. Louis. Some of the kids conceded that it was a success-although one insisted that he would rather have stayed home "huffin' butts and goin' to parties." But they had learned the advantages of cooperation and shared work. Each night the boys helped to dig the latrine or cook the chow; everyone put up tents. The kids did most of the planning too-wrote for permission to use recreational facilities, estimated provisions, got clothes ready. On the trip, there were warm receptions in river towns by the mayor or a police escort-a welcome change...
...many Negro men, going out with a white girl is a symbol of success and achievement. Says a University of California Negro student: "Black cats consciously play with white chicks. It's a challenge. For him, the white woman is shrouded in mystery. She is revered, you dig?" Adds Mrs. Anita Jones of Seattle's Urban League: "Oh, there's pride in it, all right. Dating Caucasians is part of the Negro's establishment of his identity as a man, and an attractive white girl is the last citadel...
...Soul is acting and being yourself- doing your thing, naturally. Like, I eat chitlins, yams, greens and corn bread because I dig them, not because I am black or have any false illusions that these "soul foods" will make me soulful. Soul is being, not trying...
Grosjean first became interested in Corsica while studying at the Sorbonne and the Collége de France (among his teachers: Abbé Henri Breuil, the "pope" of prehistory). When he began prospecting for a dig of his own, he remembered that Corsica's prehistoric art had been written off as "very crudely sculpted" while Sardinia, only seven miles away, had yielded a rich crop of 7,000 monuments...