Word: digging
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...were in trouble, but the first hard news came with last April's announcement that tiny Hillside S. & L. (assets: $13.9 million) was being merged with financially stronger Oak Park Federal S. & L. ($147 million). Jedlicka wrote the story as a straight news item; then he began to dig...
...Bore & Dig. "The object is definitely the most important thing to me," says Jamie. "In portraits I just wish I could drop myself out of it completely. It would be fantastic if you could just get a second person down on canvas without yourself in it," More, generally, he wants "to be involved in a little world, bore into it, dig into it and the hell with everything else...
...Justice Department has put numberless grand juries to work trying to dig up dirt on Teamsters Union Boss Jimmy Hoffa. During the past seven years, Hoffa was haled into federal courts four times on various charges-and four times he walked away laughing. But last week Justice Department Aide Walter Sheridan bolted out of a Chattanooga federal courtroom and put in a telephone call to his boss. "We made it!" Sheridan barked happily. "Nice work," said Attorney General Robert Kennedy, who has been making the downfall of Hoffa a principal target of his considerable zeal for seven years. Now Bobby...
With summer approaching in the worse-than-tropical Jordan Valley 750 ft. below sea level, Dr. Pritchard went home to Philadelphia to plan next season's dig. He is sure that the Hill of the Sa'īd Women is entirely manmade, and he longs to get to the bottom of it. Perhaps when he has cut through city after city, he will turn up a neolithic village as old as Jericho on the other side of the Jordan, which now ranks as the oldest town on earth...
...legendary "treasure-trove" is in a class by itself. Originally limited to gold, silver and gems, it has been broadened by modern law to include paper money. An authentic treasure-trove must be buried beneath the earth by a person intending to come back and dig it up-Jean Lafitte, say, or Henry Morgan. If the original owner never reappears, the treasure belongs to the finder even if the cache is unearthed on someone else's property. If the treasure is dug up on federal land, the authorities take...