Word: digging
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Drew-McCormick-Harvard expedition at Shechem is the largest archaeological dig in the Holy Land and has become an important site for training graduate students and teachers in Palestinian archaeology...
...West Point standards, most of them were lean years. Army's great All-Americas, Glenn Davis and Doc Blanchard, graduated in 1947, and 37 players were expelled when a cribbing scandal rocked the campus in 1951. "We had very few talented football players." recalls Blaik. "We had to dig into our B squad to field a team, and our job was to teach what we had the best we could. Lombardi was a driver. Not all the boys liked him. but he brought out the best in each of them...
...steerable dishes that can be turned to point all over the sky are extremely expensive. For large area and proportionately high sensitivity at reasonable cost, radio astronomers dig cylindrical or hemispherical holes in the ground and line them with radio-reflecting metal. These immovable reflectors cannot be steered except by electronic trickery, but their sheer size gives them enormous power. The cylindrical telescope at the University of Illinois has 3½ times the area of the Green Bank dish...
...probably gathers much of his information by playing on national and professional rivalries-he might trick a Dutch agricultural expert into indiscretion, for example, by baiting him with antagonistic views from a German or French colleague. However Gazzo and his men do it, there is no doubt that they dig out the news. "This report is still highly confidential," said a Common Market man to a reporter from Copenhagen. "I could not possibly let you even have a glimpse of it. However, if you want to know all about it, read Agence Europe. It's absolutely accurate...
...lived out in hardship and suffering: "You must renounce home and family and possessions. That is how to be a Mormon. You must lead your young and rose-cheeked sweetheart out into the wilderness. One day she sinks to the ground of hunger and thirst, and dies. You dig a grave with your hands and bury her in the sand and put up a cross of two straws that blow away at once. That is how to be a Mormon...