Word: digging
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...thing that Taft possesses and Gilligan cannot match is a superefficient personal campaign organization that has divided the district into 15 zones, each with its own headquarters. Taft volunteers have canvassed house to house to dig out potential Taft voters and get them registered. The organization is even using a computer to expedite the footwork, and make sure that each canvasser is used to the best advantage. Each of the 15 zones will have a battery of ten telephones working on election eve and election day to remind the right voters to go to the polls. These old-fashioned precinct...
...polyglot group of California radicals known as the "New Left" black balled both Reagan and Democratic Governor Pat Brown, urged the electorate to vote instead for the memory of Pope John, "the cat who dug what the establishment politicians don't dig: a loving concern for people...
...Police would also be forbidden to pose an arrested person for news photographs; the accused could not be interviewed unless he himself so requested in writing. To be sure, these pretrial rules would cut off crime reporters from their main sources, but diligent newsmen would still be free to dig up whatever they could find on their...
...Capitol) is a documentary of degeneration, with historical data, current statistics, comments from "acidheads" on why they dig the drug, from "travel agents" on why they sell it, and from medical experts on its appalling effects. Against a background of psychedelic music and the hallucinatory laughter of "stoned" kids, the shattering screams of a young man on his 34th trip put into frightening perspective the never-never world of society's dropouts...
...dig this ditch for Mike!" shouted Mississippi's John Bell Williams, and minutes later, a mighty chorus of "ayes" echoed through the House chamber. The "ditch" is a projected 120-mile waterway that will connect Lake Erie with the Ohio River at a cost estimated as high as $3 billion. The project has a flock of critics. But its sponsor is Ohio Democrat Mike Kirwan, 79, the Congressman responsible each year for doling out some $4 billion in pork-barrel projects to his colleagues, and most House members would sooner abandon Panama than damn Kirwan's canal...