Word: digging
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...total tax rate rises to 100%. when so-called "unearned income" reaches $43,200. After that, taxes actually exceed income. For example, people with investment income of more than $120,000 have to shell out at least $1.26 on every dollar over that amount, making it necessary to dig into capital to pay their tax bills...
...responsibility as part of the contract in public housing, but it doesn't work out. There's a lot of work that's unattractive." Dr. Eva J. Salber, the Director of the Martha May Eliot Family Health Center in Bromley-Heath, one of Boston's housing projects, stopped to dig out an article on the Center. A coworker took up the conversation. "Yes, there's rubbish in the halls, and it's not uncommon to find vomit on the steps or urine in the elevators...
...tied behind their backs just above the elbows. They had been shot through the back of the head, the bullet coming ou through the mouth. The faces would have been difficult to recognize, but the day before 27 women from the village walked out three miles carrying mattocks to dig for their missing husbands and sons, having heard about this patch of disturbed earth near the roadside. Ostara told me that the enemy had come through on their way to Hué. They had taken 27 men. Some were leaders and some were younger, strong enough to be porters...
...usefulness ceased, or when they didn't cooperate they were shot for their trouble. Some of my staff were badly mutilated, but I am inclined to believe this was done after they were killed. Their hands were tied and they were shot behind the head. I helped to dig one body out, but I have been told by Vietnamese whom I respect that some people were buried alive...
...fellow of 25, Hendrix has been on the road a long time. The son of a Seattle landscape gardener, he dropped out of high school at 18, largely, he claims, because of a teacher who was "prejudiced" against him as a Negro. "I couldn't dig that scene very hard anyway," he says. By that time, he was learning the guitar to Muddy Waters records on his back porch. After a stint as a paratrooper, he toured the rhythm-and-blues circuit, working his way to Nashville, Harlem, Greenwich Village and finally London...