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Word: digging (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1960-1969
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...what's buggin' you guys? Is everyone anti-us? Yea, we dig the Beatles, go ape for causes, and cut out to disco-thèques, but man, weren't you ever a teenager? Sonny and Chér, Bob Dylan, the Beatles, and the Rolling Stones are like us. They're part of our era. Everyone used to say we didn't care. Well, now we do, and what do you do? You make...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters: Oct. 1, 1965 | 10/1/1965 | See Source »

...still enough of them around to call a meeting of the American Society of Dowsers Inc. this week in Vermont. Man has taught himself to prospect for new sources of water by seismic refraction and aerial photography. Since World War II, engineers have gone into the remotest valleys to dig wells, build dams, cut canals and lay pipelines. In the U.S., some $10 billion is spent annually on dams, waterworks, sewage-treatment plants, pipelines, canals and levees...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Hydrology: A Question of Birthright | 10/1/1965 | See Source »

...term for those who shared the water of a rivus, or irrigation channel. The U.S. Supreme Court last year had to settle a longstanding feud between Arizona and California over use of the waters of the Colorado River. Continuing Mexican complaints have finally persuaded the U.S. to agree to dig a canal to divert salt-polluted waters from Arizona irrigation runoff before they can re-enter the Colorado and flow past Mexican cropland. But diplomacy has not yet managed to move the Jordanians and Israelis to settle their quarrel over who should divert how much water and where from...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Hydrology: A Question of Birthright | 10/1/1965 | See Source »

...Francisco's Franks refused to panic. "We've fallen back before," he said, "and we've always regrouped. This is the last time we're falling back. That's a promise. We will retrench and dig in and start to go again." Whereupon the Giants went out and lost their third game in a row, 8-2, to the Milwaukee Braves - while the Dodgers were winning their seventh straight over St. Louis, 4-3. Next day, Willie Mays crashed his 50th homer, arid the Giants finally snapped out of their losing streak with...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Baseball: Regroup! Retrench! Dig In! | 10/1/1965 | See Source »

...GARDENERS OF SALONIKA, by Alan Palmer. Salonika's gardeners were discarded tacticians sent off by World War I commanders in chief to dig trenches on the forgotten Macedonian front. But French General Franchet d'Esperey clearly recognized a strategic advantage and sent his neglected troops slicing toward the heart of Germany through the Balkans, thus hastening the Kaiser's downfall...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Television, Records, Cinema, Books: : Sep. 24, 1965 | 9/24/1965 | See Source »

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