Word: digging
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Because the Pacific Coast was conspicuously underrepresented in the Cabinet word went out to dig up a California businessman. Someone suggested J. Edward Day of Prudential Insurance. Day, a man of rollicking humor, had been Adlai Stevenson's Insurance Commissioner in Illinois, before moving to the West. His credentials appeared good, and his rather hasty appointment on December 17 completed the Kennedy Cabinet...
...talked mostly about the border war, passed by the food crisis with the remark that "two months hence we may have to face special difficulties." Few Indians have responded to his appeal to eat less. Fewer still are growing gardens. The Royal Calcutta Turf Club at first voted to dig up its emerald inner oval for crops, but so far the immaculate infield remains untouched...
Since the country appeared completely calm, censorship seemed hardly necessary, but Smith did not stop there. To protect Rhodesia against an imagined invasion, convoys of troops were ordered to dig in along the Zambesi River border with Zambia, causing President Kenneth Kaunda nervously to declare a state of emergency and order his own small army to dig in on the other side "as a protective measure." Although the chances of a clash seemed slight, it was just the sort of ugly situation that through some unexpected fluke might lead to violence-and a need for British troops...
...column marched 400 miles northward, formally took possession of King Lobengula's vassal state of Mashonaland, and began staking out their plots. The old King was dismayed. "I thought you came to dig gold," he wrote the British South Africa Co.'s board of directors, "but it seems you have come to rob me of my people and my country as well...
...boys dig Anne, Man! She's the most!" bounced Bandleader Meyer Davis in a ditty to come out by, as Anne Ford, 22, youngest daughter of Henry Ford II, made her debut four years ago. For the last few months the boy that Anne's been digging the most is ur bane Wall Street Stockbroker Giancarlo Uzielli, 31, whose mother is a Rothschild. Gianni has been seeking a Vatican annulment of his first marriage to French beauty Anne-Marie Deschodt, now wed to nouvelle vague Film Director Louis Malle. Though both are Catholics, Anne and Gianni have decided...