Word: digging
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...realm of commerce. They spot diseased trees in a lumber company's forest, take a quick inventory of grapes while they are still on the vine, measure the size of a coal stockpile for a utility company and point to the best spot for a coal miner to dig in. The Southwest Research Institute in San Antonio even takes aerial-type shots of a steer, then analyzes the animal's "hills and valleys" to get an accurate reading of how much meat is on his bones...
...this good feeling Johnson is generating among the nation's businessmen bodes well for his chances in next fall's presidential election. Says Los Angeles Banker Howard Ahmanson, a lifelong Republican: "The Republican Party will have to dig up a really great man to convince me, economically speaking, that he would make a better President than Johnson, who is making the first decisive moves toward economy that I have seen in 30 years. Other Presidents have talked about economy, but Johnson has the leadership qualities that can make it fact." And Republican Charles B. ("Tex") Thornton, chairman...
...kits, which cost $1.35 each, are remarkably close to what U.S. curriculum reformers have been crying for: "postholing" case studies that dig deep into key historical events and by suggestion and inference tell the contextual history. Author of the new series is John Langdon-Davies, a sometime history scholar, novelist and war correspondent, who reckons that he knows something about engaging young minds. At 67, he has seven children, ranging downward in age from 44 to three...
...undergraduate, Dr. Blaine showed considerable imagination. "I'm always afraid that the Record American will dig up scandalous old pictures of two Harvard boys leaving the Charles Street Jail. The MDC caught these two fellows racing each other down the Charles River on two chunks of ice during the spring thaw. One of them was me, the staid discoverer of improper sex at Harvard...I'm no Victorian...
Occasionally the Bible led him to a site that demanded digging. He had long been fascinated by a verse describing the Promised Land as a place "whose stones are iron and out of whose hills thou mayest dig brass." The word brass seems to be a mistranslation for copper, and though Palestine was not noted for producing the metal, Glueck trusted his Biblical Baedeker and kept looking for signs of ancient copper mining...